Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Court in Chicago issued a temporary injunction against withdrawals from the Harris Trust & Savings Bank account of a Greek named Constantine S. Eftax. One Gus Lowry of Sullivan, Ind. charged that Eftax is really Samuel Insull, fugitive utilities magnate; that he deposited $1,000,000 in securities and gold bullion before he fled to Greece, draws $150 to $400 weekly interest on it. Lowry declared that "Eftax" recently tried to get $50,000 in gold out of the U. S., that the account should be appropriated for Insull stockholders. Harris Trust replied that the account amounts to only...
...cartwheels fealty; and the composer of the St. Louis Blues plays that fine lament in the sole nonspecial arrangement. There are more, all delightful: unfortunately, there is also an impresario, who delivers a long and mandlin curtain lecture and is generally intolerable. Mr. Sevitsky plays Gilbert and Sullivan with spirit, there is a Popeye, but no Mickey Meuse...
...always tell a Harvard man, so goes the old adage, but you cannot tell him much. For true erudition of this variety, Professor Kittredge knows no poor. Not long ago the noted Shakespearean scholar was attending a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. Behind him, in Row J, Seat 15, sat an elderly lady; the very model of a Savoyard aunt or mother-in-law; one whom time had passed by in its fast flight, and left in the twilight of bygone days, a little unknowing. After the first act, she remarked to her companion, "It is lovely...
...Cast: Kitty Lorraine Alice Brady Shirley Lorraine Maureen O'Sullivan Warren Foster Franchot Tone Lord Aylesworth Phillips Holmes...
...pleasure to report that Alice Brady has finally learned that overacting may become monotonous; in "Stage Mother" she offers her best performance since she has come to the screen. Maureen O'Sullivan is pleasing as the young ballet danseuse...