Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afraid lest he turn into Mr. Hyde. Luckily nothing of the sort occurs. He is a rich villain named Arthur Drake and he is taking strong medicine for a weak heart. The heart is weaker than the medicine is strong, so presently Arthur Drake topples over dead. His disinherited twin brother (also Fredric March in double exposure), who happens to be present, sees the possibilities of this situation. He quickly exchanges clothes with the corpse...
...jack-of-all-trades. But besides propping up scenery for the troupe, he sustains the whole show for the Boston audience. The troupe has been further augmented by Young Love, male and female. And when Young Love lapses into trite interludes that have had cousins, not to say twin sisters, in every theatrical season, Old Jess saunters on in his shirt-sleeves to put his own salt into the show...
Last week Twin Balbo was working on plans to lead an Italian air armada of 24 seaplanes from Rome to Manhattan and then on around the world during 1932. Twin Dino kept his Foreign Office staff up nights last week, drafting proposals which he will take to the League's World Disarmament Conference as head of the Italian delegation...
...Twins are lucky to be alive, decided the University of California's Institute of Child Welfare last week after a year's study. The infant mortality among twins is greater than among babies born singly. The same study, carried out by Paul Wilson, research assistant, showed that older women have twins oftener than young mothers, that twins have twin children no more frequently than regularly born parents. Comforting to twins was the scotching of the old scorn that twins are not as smart as other people...
Engaged. Peter ("Pan") Llewellyn Davies, British publisher, nephew of Actor Sir Gerald Du Maurier; and Hon. Margaret Hore-Ruthven, onetime mannequin and dancer with her beauteous twin sister, Hon. Alison Mary. Publisher Davies, orphaned in youth with his four brothers, became a ward of Sir James Matthew Barrie, was the inspiration of Peter...