Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cars could be exported to Europe uncrated and unscratched. So successful was this that Bernstein "floating garages'' have long carried over 60% of all U. S. automobile exports, made enough money for sole Owner Arnold Bernstein to allow him to buy out the American-Belgian-British Red Star Line and incidentally bring into Nazi Germany thousands of dollars yearly in much needed foreign exchange. Bernstein passenger agents find their boats are "very popular with intellectuals who object to the snobbishness of Cabin Class...
...color, perhaps we have been spoiled by the perfection of "A Star Is Born," the color in the present film completely obscures both plot and character portrayal, and even with its black and white, "Hurricane" paints a far truer picture of the South Seas atmosphere than does "Ebb tide." Though Francis Farmer is a good enough excuse for forgetting a plot innumerable shots of a dilapidated schooner in a sunset...
Barry Wood, football star of the class of 1932, is also a Phi Beta Kappa. His wife is a Phi Beta Kappa. But the rumor is spreading that since Saturday's great triumph of Football, his wife is having the two Phi Beta Kappa keys made into earrings...
Embattled last week on a coast-to-coast picket line, the American Newspaper Guild, in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, charged the New York Times with "coercion and interference with the organization of the employes." In Seattle a drawn-out strike against the Star was stalemated, a new strike against the Bayonne, N. J. Times was met with a drastic injunction forbidding every form of picketing and any attempt to influence other employes. But in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the Guild won a notable victory as it ended a strike against the Record: effective Jan. 1 all editorial...
...role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy) he is a lovable fraud, fond of voicing his feelings in the ringing phrases of Shakespeare and the once-aboard-the-lugger playwrights. To star-struck Olivia de Havilland he is unutterably wonderful. When Olivia's infatuation blinds her to the worth of her suitor (Patric Knowles), Idol Howard decently decides to disillusion her. The plan for such a procedure, his dresser (Eric Blore) agrees, is neatly outlined in one of his early triumphs...