Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stranger than all others. What was there...
...long as weekly receipts run above a "certain figure" (not divulged), be ready to leave by Nov. 20 when Mr. Johnson hoped to move in? Mr. Johnson would have his Grand Opera run for ten weeks. On the dais will be a slim little man who is no stranger to Chicago opera-Gennaro Papi, who had 13 summers at Ravinia (and 14 winters at the Metropolitan). Well aware of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's popularity, Mr. Johnson decided against having performances Thursday or Friday, traditionally Orchestra dates. But there will be a Saturday matinee. Seats will range from...
...Stranger Returns" is the romantic interpretation. In it Lionel Barrymore, slightly juvenile for his years, is the grand old man Storer, who saves from rapacious peasant "in-law" the land which rightfully belongs to his granddaughter, the last of the Storers, played by an over-tense and under-trained Miriam Hopkins. The photography is above average, script below par. Barrymore same as ever. Good entertainment...
...away on his annual trip to the coast, a panther got into the cabin just after Cean had given birth; she had to get up and kill it with an axe. Cean's brother Lias fell in love with Margot. a girl at the coast who was no stranger to men. When he brought her defiantly home the family was troubled out made the best of things. Soon they were all sorry for Margot, for Lias's passion turned to hate; he beat her, fathered another woman's child, finally left for California. When nothing was heard...
...stranger joined the line. After an hour's shuffling forward, he was given a sticky handful of some noisome stuff. He asked the surly clerk for change, was told there was no change in the store. He patiently asked for wrapping paper. The clerk jeered, "Afraid you'll get your hands soiled?" The stranger asked, "Where is the manager?" The clerk handed him a piece of newspaper to wrap his handful, told him the manager was "upstairs somewhere." Upstairs he went, gingerly hold- ing his handful. Clerks sent him from department to department for more than an hour...