Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slowly the drama developed. The Prisoner was Norman Baillie-Stewart, 24, a lieutenant in the aristocratic Seaforth Highlanders, a regiment still known north of the Tweed as the Ross-shire Buffs, whose Colonel-in-Chief is Edward of Wales (see cut). As a cadet at Sandhurst Lieut. Baillie-Stewart became still more intimate with the Royal Family by serving as orderly to Prince Henry, third son of George V. The charge against him was selling military secrets to a foreign power. Last week his court martial commenced...
Saluting smartly, Lieut. Baillie-Stewart stepped to the witness stand. By King's Regulations an officer under arrest may wear neither sword nor spurs. As a Highlander Baillie-Stewart had been deprived of his Sam Browne belt. Just as the trial commenced a clergyman sprang up from the back benches waving a Bible and shouting...
...keenly alert for interesting and constructive ways to invest his money. He lost a lot two years ago backing a musical show for his artist friend Peter Arno, but the experience did not diminish his liking for and friendship with such characters as Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart. His aunt, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhurst, backed The New Republic and Asia. Nephew Jock owns a substantial slice of Polo. Lately he was reported investigating the possibilities of founding a new cinema company...
...cinemaddicts unfamiliar with Hollywood fashions, it may seem strange that so sad a picture as The White Sister should have been entrusted for adaptation to Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart. It is not Stewart's writing which weakens the emotional quality of The White Sister. The picture's mood hovers between the realistic and the romantic; at times, when actionless dialog makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna...
...Aldrich merely acting as the vehicle of his brother'in-law's high-minded business code?† In 1929, while John D. Jr. was in the Holy Land, Lawyer Aldrich managed the proxy battle that wrested control of Standard Oil of Indiana from Robert Wright Stewart in order to purify the oil business. Was John D. Jr. trying to do the same for banking? (The same day that Mr. Aldrich spoke, John D. Sr., so short of dimes that he had given a $1 tip to a caddy, declared, "I have every confidence in our bankers...