Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Luttrellstown Castle, Clonsilla, Ireland, on a visit went Lady Sylvia Ashley and Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks, corespondent in Lord Ashley's suit for divorce. In Philadelphia. Pa., Mary Pickford said: "Men are like little boys- when they are tired of being naughty they are glad to come home.'' Harry (''Black Panther") Wills, who retired from heavyweight boxing ia 1932 and now owns two apartment houses in New York's Harlem, began the one-month fast which he has kept every February for the last 20 years, explained why he was late in starting his 21st...
...Sing Sing's Walter C. Brown had a garish interpretation of his jail's aviary; Michigan State Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell, The Bucket Line, Gymnasium, The Hospital. The anonymity of the convict's life she expressed by failing to draw features on any of her figures' faces. Even a starched-capped keeper...
...Sylvia Sidney and Frederick March prove conclusively in "Good Dame" that the director, scenario writer, and author of a movie can be quite insignificant. Without a good story the, two speak poor lines so that one thinks that one is hearing the best lines from the best play of Shakespeare. No doubt it is quite difficult to believe that two simple souls can be quite perfect in the cinema. You think that these two hams are receiving too much credit, that no actor or actress from Hollywood could achieve so much fame legitimately. My opinion would blast all previous ones...
...young crook in the carnival business who takes money from unsuspecting fools in the game of Ace, King, Queen. His name is Mace, and he falls in love with a girl who has been filched of all her money by his partner in crime. The girl is Sylvia Sidney, and you are mistaken, she does not weep, and pity herself for twenty minutes. I have been wary in the past of placing any superlatives on Miss Sideny's ability, but she shows in "Good Dame" that she is as capable an actress as can be found in Hollywood today...
Sued for Divorce. By Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 33, eldest son of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, nephew of the Duke of Westminster; Lady Ashley (Louise Sylvia Hawkes), onetime showgirl, onetime dress model with whom he eloped seven years ago; in London. Charge: misconduct. Named corespondent: travel-loving Douglas Fairbanks Sr. from whom Gladys Mary Smith Pickford is currently seeking divorce...