Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dancer Astaire plays Jerry Halliday, an American musicomedy star involved in a muddled case of mistaken affinity. The service staff at Totieigh Castle are running a sweepstakes on the young mistress' suitors, and Jerry is not even listed. Alyce (Joan Fontaine) has set her heart on an American ski jumper whom she met in Switzerland. Tyrannical Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth...
...players who voted said that they made no overtures, did not "dicker" concerning terms of accepting post season game. Frank Souchak, star end, said, "We simply don't want to play the game--isn't that enough...
Assisted by members of Harvard Dramatic Club, Beaver Country Day School, will present Helen Jerome's "Pride and Prejudice" on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:15 o'clock. The play will be given in Bradley Hall, the School's theatre in Chestnut Hill. Star of the show will be Miss Gail Neilson, supported by Langdon P. Marvin...
...Cedric Adams' personal concern was relieved when his good friend & tipster, Dr. Russel R. Noice, walked into the Star office, made known he was ready to tell police he had overheard a murder plotted in the cheap League of Nations beer parlor, but that the intended victim was not Corcoran but another labor leader. Soon Alderman A. G. Bastis revealed that not only Patrick Corcoran but four other labor leaders had been marked for death, that Corcoran himself knew he was in danger, that Rumorist Adams had merely printed what had been widely whispered in Twin City labor circles...
After five days had passed, Corcoran's murder was unsolved despite rewards of $10,000 offered by the Teamsters' Council, $500 by the Star, $500 by Governor Elmer Benson...