Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What actually happens is unimportant. Roland Young, whose cinema career has been a succession of embarrassing situations, is this time embarrassed when, discovered with the lady who lost her dress by her husband, a javelin-thrower. A friend (Charles Ruggles) tries to help Young out by saying that he is married. Young is therefore forced to dig up a girl (Lily Damita) to pose as his wife. Both couples and the friend set off for Venice where, as anticipated, Young and Lily Damita are last seen drifting inseparably in a gondola. Even better than the idea of proving that Lubitsch...
...Roland Thaxter '82, professor of Cryptogamic Botany, Emeritus, and Honorary Curator of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, died yesterday at his home. He was seventy-three years of age and had been ill for several months...
...small stuffy courtroom of Honolulu's Judiciary Building, a once handsome, now haggard New York & Washington society, matron eyed these twelve U. S. citizens as last week they took permanent seats in the jury box. They were the twelve men good & true who would try her, Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, for second-degree murder. On the same charge they would also try her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. Navy, who sat beside her staring at the floor and biting his lips. Likewise they would try Seamen Edward J. Lord and Albert Orrin Jones...
Expert In Hammond, Ind., presenting a melodrama from radio station WAE, Roland G. Palmer, sound expert, made noises like galloping horses, howling wind, pattering rain. When the script called for a pistol shot, Sound Man Palmer picked up a pistol, shot off two of his fingers...
...accosting waitresses - "Embraced Betty Beach, an actress, while she was clad only in her nightie - "Taken Rose Ellis on a trip to Paris." Each of these points was taken up by the Bishop's prosecutor, a gentleman who bore the high chivalric names of Charlemagne's champions: Roland & Oliver. Only two women were in court: the rector's wife, who sat among the witnesses, and a dark mysterious woman in scarlet who sat in the balcony, never spoke, fascinated the gentlemen of the Press. White-haired Dr. Davidson rushed into court breathless, flustered, 20 minutes late, followed...