Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English in its flavor, that may be explained by the fact that Doris Manners-Sutton, born in Australia, is of Irish-Breton parentage. A scrawled statement of her own, reluctantly given, contains all her publishers have been able to discover about her. It runs: "Manners-Sutton, Doris. Biographical sketch. . . . Wandered about the world. Always interested in the occult. Has 'the sight.' Spent a year collecting . . . information for Black God. Nearly eaten by cannibals. Believes sincerely in magic and the power of created thought. Has written all her life...
...rule? Would it still bear its present name?" In Manhattan, Cartoonist Will Johnstone of the World Telegram made a picture of his tax payer playing golf dressed in a barrel, saying "Nobody objects to my shorts." In the New York Daily News, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor drew a sketch called "A Thousand Welcomes," showing a newspaper artist bored with such topics as the Drought, Hitler and the Far East, examining with approval the figure of a female golfer wearing shorts...
...Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein (Fox) has the distinction of the longest title out of Hollywood this year. It purports to be a biographical sketch of Arnold Rothstein, a notorious gambler whose murder, in Manhattan's Park Central Hotel in 1928, remains unsolved to this...
...Lula Vollmer, who has written several plays of the backwoods, sees her story completely appropriated by the clever actress who, we hear, is aiming at a Hollywood greatness that will rival Garbo's. The character players who make up the local color are taken from Miss Vollmer's radio sketch of the Tennessee mountains, "Moonshine and Honeysuckle," and are used only as folls for Miss Hepburn. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young, young engineers who invade the backwoods to build a dam, offer complications which are not very important, except as they create dramatic situations for Katharine. As for Miss Hepburn...
...other blossom-time duty the President took care of: he attended the spring Gridiron Club dinner postponed until his return. Notable sketch provided by waggish newshawks: Vice President Garner in the role of Mark Antony reciting...