Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backslappers to refuge in the boarding house where Miss Plum lives with various cinema people who differ from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that Colossal is being ruined by 1) its ace director (Alan Mowbray), a Russian who wants to send to Switzerland for edelweiss for his Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart...
...corpuscles eventually replace the decimal points in Atterbury's blood. Miss Plum teaches him jujitsu and the rhumba, becomes his secretary. He refuses to send to Switzerland for edelweiss. He causes Miss Cheri to break her contract under the moral turpitude clause by getting her so drunk she slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand...
...Paris, soon became better known to U. S. travelers, including members of the Roosevelt family, than many members of the Embassy staff. In the meantime he had acquired a promising reputation by serving with special American delegations abroad and at one period was made charge d'affaires in Switzerland. Rumor had him slated for a minister's post. Last year he went to Beirut, Syria for experience in the consular service. Friends in Paris feared the Syrian climate would be bad for his health...
When the Holland-America liner Veendam arrived in the U. S., photographers spotted one Dr. Albert Einstein Jr., a construction engineer in Switzerland. Because he had a famed name they snapped him roundly, then asked, "Are you any relative of Professor Einstein of Princeton?" "Ja," replied Dr. Einstein Jr., "son." A moment later Father Einstein arrived to greet his relative...
...first; captivated, he made three subsequent visits, most of them as guest of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, Bengal ruler whose kingdom supplied much of the local color for The Rams Came. Bromfield still says he intends to settle in the U. S. some day, meantime commutes between Senlis, Switzerland (where he has three children, all girls, at school) and Manhattan. Hard on luggage, he is relatively easy on typewriters, works only two hours a clay, 9:30-11:30 a. m.; thereafter, when gardens are available, gardens...