Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Griebl had a copy of a secret code, used by Miss Hofmann. He was the addressee of a letter found among her personal effects. He was a onetime president of the now defunct Friends of New Germany. Government agents counted on him as a star witness. They were shocked last week, when the investigation started: Ignatz Griebl had boarded the Bremen and was on the high seas, bound for Germany. At first glance, it appeared that this escape of Ignatz from a hair net was a brilliant piece of work. The assumption proved unwarranted. In his haste to leave...
...such hits as Hooray for What! and Of Mice and Men already closed, it was plain last week that few producers were running the risk of theatrical ptomaine. But 1937-38 was eupeptic. No really bad play landed on its feet, though several got passing marks almost entirely through star acting: Susan and God because of Gertrude Lawrence, Whiteoaks because of Ethel Barrymore, Once Is Enough because of Ina Claire. Further, it was a season in which, from start to finish, the critics acted as pacesetters: No-play they panned became a hit, and none they cheered turned...
...stage appearance since she retired in 1918. Her only recent connection with the theatre has been as professor of drama at Stephens College, Columbia. Mo. Recently, 65-year-old Maude Adams went to Culver City, Calif., took a screen test. Last week the result was announced: Miss Adams will star in a picture David Selznick plans to produce next fall. Said proud Cinemogul Selznick: "It will be a privilege to introduce her for the first time to the millions of the new generation...
Wise undergraduates, remembering May 11, rushed up the steps for shelter, while the general public remained star-scattered on the grass. Irving G. Fine 1G, conductor, saved the day for Harvard by hurriedly cancelling the last three numbers and inviting all members of the university onto the steps to join in the college songs. Mindful of the downpour which waterlogged the ivories two weeks ago, Glee Club members carried the piano to safety...
...first camera kiss as a ranking star, however, is given to Gene Raymond while the two of them, cast as a pair of jewel thieves, are hiding from the police in the house of a once-famed pianist (Lewis Stone). During the starry embrace the dark-eyed maiden shows no lack of promise...