Word: trent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictators were perfect examples of traditional British public servants. The majority have titles. Eight went to Oxford or Cambridge, one to Edinburgh, two into the Army and Navy. One is an educator (Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), one a big businessman (John Boot, Lord Trent, head of the great Boots drugstore chain), one a diplomat (Sir Auckland Geddes, Ambassador to Washington, 1920-24), one a labor specialist (Harold Butler, former Director of the International Labor Office, Geneva). Five have had long Government experience, six saw active War duty. One makes the paper for English bank notes...
...push cereals, headache remedies, tooth paste, floor polish, cosmetics, etc. for 19 sponsors. For many of these spots B-S-H's great, straight-line script mill turned out at mass production prices Just Plain Bill, Second Husband, John's Other Wife, Romance of Helen Trent, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Lorenzo Jones, Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas, Alias Jimmy Valentine, David Harum. All these were ghostwritten by some 14 anonymous authors in the names of Adman Frank Hummert and his wife, Anne...
...TRENT INTERVENES - E. C. Bentley - Knopf ($2). Ingenious short stories, told in a charming, highly literate style, and featuring Philip Trent, who is something of a classic among English detectives...
While his new wife, the former Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt (TIME, Feb. 8), was opening a bridge across the Trent River, the Duke of Norfolk confided to a British journalist how he met her. "I went out hunting with the Quorn hounds just over a year ago, and fell off my horse. It was entirely my own fault, but a certain lady, who is now beside me, stopped to pick me up. I was told afterwards it was the only time in her life she had stopped for anybody who had fallen off in the hunting field. . . . She is feeling...
...unhappy contrast, "Mad Holiday"' the companion feature, with Edmund Lowe and Elissa Landi, is rather slow and hackneyed. Philip Trent (Edmund Lowe), a movie actor wearied of his acedetective role in mystery films, boards a ship for a vacation cruise. On the steamer he meets Phyllis (Elissa Landi), author of many of his scripts, and together they get involved in the murder of a wealthy man and the disappearance of his famous diamond. Somehow murder on shipboard is a favorite sport with Hollywood producers, and this one leads Philip and Phyllis in and out of staterooms for fifteen torturous minutes...