Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conflicting aims of these people and their proximity naturally lead to startling readjustments. The dancer and the Baron fall in love. The stenographer is attracted by the Baron too, but she agrees to take a trip with Preysing. Presently the Baron goes to Preysing's room to steal. The stenographer sees Preysing kill the Baron by smashing him over the head with a telephone. The clerk is the one who makes sure that Preysing is arrested for murder. The dancer leaves the hotel expecting to meet the Baron at the railroad station...
...have held winning lottery tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills the caddish officer for cheating in the card game. Elissa Landi is suspected of the crime and the only witness who might help her, an ex-soldier, is so paralyzed...
...which do not intermingle enough. There is too little organization and initiative among the members themselves. The House Committee, which was appointed by the Master last fall, confined itself to a tea dance in November, and to buying magazines for the Common Room, and exhorting the students not to steal them, via the bulletin board. Last night an entertainment was provided, however, which was the work of the Committee and may presage more active days in future. The Committee begain badly by starting a collection for a House Fund which was not carried through. Some students contributed, while others were...
While Arsene Lupin was being made, Hollywood heard that the Barrymores were squabbling on the set, trying hard to steal each other's scenes. This was probably unfounded. Amiable competitors, they first played together in Peter Ibbetson. John, offered the role, refused it as "sentimental bunk" until he learned that there was a part in it for Lionel, then an illustrator at $50 a week. The play ran four months. Later, planning a fishing trip together, they expected it to be postponed a week or two by The Jest, which ran nine months. When they met for the first...
...depression penetrates to the tropics. There is a priceless old harridan of a honky-tonk proprietress, blowsy and affable, disreputable and roguish, who considerately allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over-estimates his drunkenness, and is caught red-handed. To save here self from jail, she puts herself in his power; and a particularly unpleasant power it is. Mr. Bickford, though often cast as a hero, is the most disagreeable exponent...