Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bilibid Prison. Then he learned that some U.S. prisoners, newly freed, were on the other side of the wall. He felt his way down blacked-out corridors. "Suddenly I sensed rather than felt or saw someone beside me," he wrote. "I stuck out my hand, even as did Stanley in darkest Africa. . . 'I'm Quigg, United Press,' I said. The Dr. Livingstone of Bilibid Prison grasped my hand fervently. 'Weissblatt, United Press,' he replied." No one in Manila begrudged Correspondent Quigg this bit of Richard Harding Davis exuberance. For in Manila last week...
...Last week, Oliver Stanley, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Colonies, was in the U.S., enunciating the proposition that Britain would reform its empire but would not submit to any form of international advice...
...following is an extract from the speech made by Colonel Stanley to the Foreign Policy Association in New York...
...film gets away with this startling argument against the sanctity of unhappy marriage by playing the whole business as period melodrama (London, 1902). And very good melodrama it is. Ella Raines, Stanley Ridges and Henry Daniell are excellent respectively as Wife No. 2, the calmly cruel sleuth, and a neighbor who blackmails his way to death. Rosalind Ivan is satisfactorily terrifying as the Gorgon-like Wife No. 1. Sloping, suffer ing Charles Laughton has a high old histrionic time and gives the audience one -in one of his best roles since he played a similar mousy murderer in Payment Deferred...
...fashion business went Good Neighborly last week. Sponsored by the wife of Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, a benefit style show and sale opened in Mexico City. From Dallas came a special plane bearing dresses, shoes, hats, Clothier H. Stanley Marcus and twelve luscious models. All were installed in Mexico City's gaudy Reforma Hotel...