Word: robson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with Wings Over Europe, Wings Over Ethiopia, Storm Over the Andes, Storm Over Asia, Thunder Over Mexico and Head Over Heels in Love (TIME, Feb. 22), is Elizabethan sword & cloak drama, showing how the Spanish Armada was frustrated by young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) while Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) was feeding porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats, Ingolby escapes from a Spanish galleon, sails...
...play does not give Miss Bergner the opportunity to display her best talents inasmuch as her sprightly appeal is only with difficulty adapted to the role of Empress. Douglas Fair-banks, Jr. and Flora Robson, the famous English stage actress, give excellent support in the roles of Czar and the dying Empress from whose once capable hands Catherine II has to take the reins of government. The English eye for details is less keen than that of Hollywood and the pomp and pageantry which abound lack the conviction which recent domestic historical films have attained. In spite of these defects...
...burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus prompts her to go South and investigate. Compared on points, Waif Ching-Ching comes out considerably ahead of Waif Ainsworth. Compared as pictures, Stowaway comes out ahead of Rainbow on the River, which is still...
...amazed at the support young matrons and businessmen were giving him. Hundreds, by asking attendants the way to the bar and washrooms, revealed that this was their first visit to the Opera House. For this new contingent, lively, white-haired Mrs. August Belmont was chiefly responsible. As Actress Eleanor Robson at the old Empire Theatre she used to hurry across the street from her performances and buy standing room at the Opera House. All her life she has kept her interest in the Metropolitan, three years ago became the first woman on its board. When Johnson stepped into the managership...
...second picture, May Robson makes herself one of the silliest, most absurdly anti-social, hard-old-women we have ever seen, and her softening up in the end is terrible in its sentimentality. If, as the University's blurb-sheet says, the part "fits her like a glove," Miss Robson can't be the grand old lady we like to think her. She ends by adopting a bunch of going children as crazy as herself...