Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Parnell he toured the U. S. several times, collecting money from fervent Fenians for The Cause, but he finally broke with Parnell after the latter's life with Kitty O'Shea had become an international Victorian scandal...
...World (Paramount). William Powell plays the role of a slightly sentimental blackmailer, faced by an unusual dilemma. Operating in Paris as editor of a scandal sheet he performs his extortions so skilfully that he finds himself admired by his victims and falls in love with one of them. The blackmailer is in a quandary trying to decide whether to reform himself or to disillusion his inamorata. Convinced that reformation is impossible, he blackmails the girl, sails for South Africa on a tramp steamer...
When three such eminent film celebrities such as George Bancroft, Kay Francis, and Clive Brook are gathered together for a movie, one is led to expect some rather entertaining fireworks. As a matter of fact, "Scandal Sheet", now at the University, is a good deal like the old parable of the sky-rocket...
...Scandal Sheet" had a great chance for a first rate show, but in the last few reels it went haywire due chiefly to ham dramatics and a few inexcusable scenes. The fade out finds George whiling away the hours in Sing Sing as Managing Editor of the prison paper...
...optimistic outlook for journalism which Walter Lippman pictures in the current Yale Review will be balm to those hurt minds which have seen the decline of civilization in the scare head lines, scandal stories, and lurid illustrations of the tabloids. Mr. Lippman fore-tells a general revulsion against the romantic tricks of the yellow press which will lead to a new "objective" journalism. Fresh reporting methods rather than sensational stories will be the means of preventing papers from acquiring the soporific faculty of government reports...