Word: robson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millions" is, as might be suggested by the title, a one woman affair. It was inevitable that the production should stand or fall according to the ability of the central character. In portraying on the scren a portion of the life of the famous feminine financier, Hettie Green, May Robson has created a characterization which not only set the seal of success on the picture, but has entitled it to be ranked high among the yearly output of Hollywood...
...first day of play, the heat wave, against which the British had complained, broke in a loud thunderstorm, the British Ryder Cup team lost three out of four two-ball foursomes. Next day, Gene Sarazen kept his trousers pressed and his shirt buttoned up, beat Fred Robson, seven up. He appalled Robson on the fourth hole by driving his ball into a refreshment stand, playing a niblick shot off the floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute...
...methods, maintains an unnecessarily pop-eyed attitude toward the interesting but not incomprehensible maneuvers of stockmarket operators. On the other hand, it conveys the clear impression of a character who, if not much like the late Hetty Green, resembles somewhat the world's conception of her. Actress May Robson noticed how Hetty Green's mouth curved down in a hard line under a snub nose, how her eyes sparkled merrily under tufted, threatening eyebrows. An expert in makeup, she made her own features do likewise when she had obtained permission for Author Howard McKent Barnes to write Mother...
...week room, subsisted on five bananas per day. Mrs. August Belmont, head of the Woman's Fund Committee, raised $4,500 by reading in public what George Bernard Shaw described as his "love letters" to her, written in 1904 and 1905 when she was famed Actress Eleanor Robson. And in Washington Mrs. Herbert Hoover returned from the Rapidan camp to speak over the radio in praise of girls and women who have fought Drought and Unemployment as follows...
Egyptian interest in the Canadian situation focused last week upon a few bushels of wheat recently harvested at Robson, British Columbia, by Farmer Charles A. Bony. "Not that it's the best wheat!" said he, "It's soft and won't fetch much of a price. But there's no other wheat hereabouts that sprouted from grain sealed up 3,000 years ago in the coffin of Tutankhamen...