Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merton Gill (Stuart Erwin) is a grocery clerk who longs to be a cinema celebrity. Equipped with stupidity to equal his ambition, he goes to Hollywood, informs a casting director that he has a diploma from a correspondence school of acting. His bemused enthusiasm makes his predicament sad as well as funny. Once admitted to a studio lot, he remains for two days, sleeping in property beds, eating property pork & beans. A generous extra girl (Joan Blondell) tries to befriend him but in so doing adds the last straw to Merton's misery. She gets him a job with...
Better than any other actor in Hollywood, Stuart Erwin has mastered the expression of befuddlement. He was a bewildered drunk in innumerable pictures before his ability got him, in Make Me a Star, his first starring part. There are times when Erwin reads the pathos between his lines a little too vociferously but there are other times when his confident naiveté suggests a Chaplin who can talk. He makes Merton's grand gesture of presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem...
Engaged, Dr. James Rowland Angell, 63, president of Yale University; and Katherine Cramer Woodman, daughter of Stuart Warren Cramer, textile manufacturer and G. O. Politician of Cramerton, N. C. Dr. Angell's first wife, Marion Isabel Watrous of Des Moines, died in June 1931. Their two children are Professor James Waterhouse Angell of Columbia University and Mrs. William Rockefeller McAlpin of New York. Mrs. Woodman's husband, a onetime vice president of Cramerton Mills, N. C., by whom she has six children, died...
Author Francis Stuart, 29, is the very model of modern Irish patriot-litterateur. His family, Ulster Unionists, schooled him at England's rugged Rugby. He became a Roman Catholic in 1920, joined the Irish Republican Army, was taken prisoner by Free State troops during the Dublin street-fighting of 1922, interned for 15 months. He married a niece of Maud Gonne MacBride whose soldier-husband, a Boer War gallant, was executed in Dublin after the 1916 rebellion and whose son Sean is now active in Irish Republican affairs. Author Stuart lives at Glendalough (Dublin suburb). Novelist Liam...
...London includes some 37 institutions scattered about the city. Among these are King's College, founded in 1828, and University College which Scottish Poet Thomas Campbell. Lord Brougham, Philosopher Bentham and others established in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum, in 1826. Poet Robert Browning and Economist John Stuart Mill studied at University College. Though the University of London has 20,000 students (more than Oxford and Cambridge combined), it is little known to Londoners, had no athletic field until a year ago. It now has brave plans for an entirely new site, also in Bloomsbury, where...