Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest policeman (Robert Emmett O'Connor) and a ratiocinative Negro doorman stay sweet & simple. While Ayres & Clarke prattle innocently about emigrating to the island of Bali in the South Pacific, gangsters wipe out the proprietor & his wife. The honest policeman kills the gangsters. Typical hardboiled shot: Mae Clarke telling the proprietor's wife who has offered to hold Lew Ayres...
...Toits de Paris, Le Million). For all his pictures René Clair writes the story and dialog, directs, cuts and edits. He has repeatedly rejected Hollywood contracts. Says he: "Hollywood wanted me for five years. If they are happy, they keep me; if I am unhappy, I must stay. It is not good for me. ... It is more important to make good pictures than good money. . . . Money they can give you; liberty they cannot." A Nous, La Liberté! was passed by the French censor after Liberty-Lover Clair had made some requested changes. Good shots: a crowd of silk...
...position of chairman of the executive committee. La Salle Street recalled old rumors that Arthur Reynolds had quarreled with the directors but he insisted: "There is nothing to be read between the lines about my resignation. ... I resigned in spite of the fact that the directors urged me to stay. ... I am leaving the bank because of impaired hearing. . . . The dampness of the climate here affects my ears...
...this burlesque claim Luther lives happily at home with Sis, works out for a poor white farmer, John Sprouse. John has chronic rheumatism which does not endear him to Sarah, his lusty-bodied wife. Her eyes roam to Luther's agile body in the fields, and there they stay. She tries to snare him, but he has the wit to stay away. Meanwhile John Sprouse's worthless brother Bengo debauches Sis, and, to forestall Luther's possible revenge, attacks him. Luther, broken-hearted about Sis, who can never pass for an Indian girl now, knows...
...ambition was to be a musician, Glenway has turned out to be a Literary Gift. His books, The Apple of the Eye, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, picture his native Middle West of which he says: "How much sweeter to come and go than to stay." He now lives mostly in France, where he is working on a two-volume novel, to which he feels he can return now that he has contributed Fear & Trembling to his fellow...