Word: sues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English law was enacted providing that anyone discovering a theatre open on Sunday might, as a "common informer," sue the proprietor, collect informer's money. The law has never been repealed. When a Miss Millie Orpen discovered this state of affairs, she pounced upon the Sunday-showing Capitol Theatre (cinema) in London with a suit. Last week to all cinemen's dismay, a court awarded Miss Orpen $15,000. But the court was dismayed too. It also awarded the Capitol a stay of execution. Planned were appeal and repeal...
...Meanwhile, The Churchman asserted that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman for libel, but did not sue...
Upshot: Mr. Vanderbilt sued his wife for divorce; threatened to sue Mr. Arno for alienating her affections. Mr. Arno, who is in Reno to get a divorce from Lois Long ("Lipstick" of The New Yorker), meditated a suit against Mr. Vanderbilt for slander...
Under the Meuse-Argonne attack the German morale crumbled. On Oct. 6 Berlin began to sue for an Armistice. General Pershing favored fighting to an unconditional surrender. When hostilities ended, he went straight to Paris where he concluded My Experiences thus: "I hastened over to call on M. Clemenceau. To my mind he was the greatest of French civil officials. . . . When we met he was much affected and indeed demonstrative. We fell into each other's arms, choked up and had to wipe our eyes. We had no differences to discuss that...
...that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper gusto. Genuine bank-robbers bring excitement to the closing sequences, in which Oakie proves that his heroism is more than histrionic. Typical shot: Pallette, as a pseudo-Sioux chief, trying to understand why, if a girl is Sue (Sioux) her father is not Sioux also...