Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognized immediately by every visitor was a Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) Washington showing the President's sunken cheeks caused by the wooden false teeth which Painter Charles Willson Peale made for him. Less known was a Washington at the Battle of Trenton by Stuart's contemporary, John Trumbull (1756-1843), moody son of a Connecticut Governor, who once refused a commission in Washington's army because a clerk misdated it. Best known of Painter Trumbull's works are his four big panels (The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation...
Preceding Cab on the stage show are Stuart and Ward, who would constitute the main attraction on any ordinary program. The humor of their drunken acrobatics is overshadowed by appearance of the Cotton Club's best...
...well known is another Bulgarian industry. League investigators of the international narcotic trade have often pointed an accusing finger at Bulgaria as one of the most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller of the U. S. revealed that in 1933 Bulgaria imported enough acetic acid anhydride to manufacture 13,000 Ib. of heroin, four times the legitimate needs of the entire world. Col. Charles Henry Sharman of Canada charged that Bulgarian production of raw opium rose from...
...PUZZLE OF THE SILVER PERSIAN- Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Miss Hildegarde Withers does her prying entirely alone, on a transatlantic liner, in a London hotel, in an ancient castle; wins an invitation from Scotland Yard...
...treachery and returns to Mexico at the head of his rejuvenated army of peons and bandits. Pascal is ousted, and the liberal reforms accomplished. Wallace Beery as the much romanticized Villa, gives another of his gruff and lovable portrayals. The love interest is supplied by Fay Wray, and Stuart Erwin as the American reporter is adequate. Henry B. Walthall, who has appeared much too rarely since "The Birth of a nation" makes the gentile, idealistic Madero a vivid character. The photography and musical accompaniment are excellent, but the film is unnecessarily long and would profit by judicious cutting...