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According to George Meade of the Daily Princetonian the dance will be the high spot of the Princeton social season. Mayor Davis and his orchestra will play, and a sumptuous supper will be served at midnight...
...playboy, with a $50 million carpet fortune to spend. Almost everything he did made news-his winning of the U.S. fencing championship in 1890; the time his 1,520-ton steam yacht was wrecked in the Madeira Islands (he won a medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor in 1898, "is not only the richest, but the handsomest unmarried New Yorker. He is a devoted golfer, an expert cross-country rider, a 'good gun,' a skillful...
Walls of Jericho (20th Century-Fox) is a protracted and generally unrewarding study of life in a Kansas county seat during the Teddy Roosevelt era. The principals: a politically hopeful lawyer (Cornel Wilde); his drunken wife (Ann Dvorak); Lawyer Wilde's newspaper editor friend (Kirk Douglas); his sumptuous bride (Linda Darnell); a young girl (Anne Baxter) who has secretly worshipped Lawyer Wilde from her pigtail days...
Waugh's Hollywood trip was not wasted. He was fascinated by the ritual for disguising death which is big business in Southern California. Waugh spent every day that he could get away prying into the fatuous, sumptuous necropolis of Forest Lawn. The result was The Loved...
...brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous and stupendous visions of sensuality...