Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designed as a vehicle for Bert Lytell's return to the Manhattan stage last year and had a good run. It is better as a picture than it was as a play because the mechanics of the modern camera help Bert Lytell to play his dual role of twin orphans-one adopted by a family of wealth, the other by a washwoman. Instead of making a quick trip offstage before coming on as the older brother, he now looks at himself, argues with himself, hits himself, picks himself up, carries himself off the set. Most monotonous shot: Mr. Lytell...
...February 1929, Chicago Corp. was formed to operate as a general management type investment trust. In September 1929, Continental Chicago Corp. was formed for the same purpose. The companies have many things in common, including practically an identical capitalization, interlocking directors. But Chicago Corp. has one thing its twin lacks, and that is an investment in 250,000 shares of Willys-Overland Co. common stock. Because of that stock it is the weaker company, and under terms of a merger announced last week its shareholders will receive only 65/100ths of a share of Continental Chicago for every share of Chicago...
Harold Lloyd leases his studios and has a complete staff of film-makers on his payroll. Paramount merely distributes his films. It took him four months to make the skyscraper shots in Feet First. Nobody doubles for him in high places. He uses fewer twin-exposure shots than most skeptics would suppose. He is an athletic young man and keeps himself in shape on the private golf course, tennis courts, handball courts, and in the gymnasium of his expansive house. When he is making a climbing comedy his only protection is a platform with mattresses on it, built out from...
...Chicago, five years ago Herman Jackson took a wife. So did his twin brother Albert. A year ago Herman left his wife. So did Albert. Herman married again without divorce. So did Albert. Last week Herman was arrested for bigamy. So was Albert...
...only other time that a Crimson football team engaged in a doubleheader was in the fall of 1921 when both Middlebury and B. U. were defeated in an early season twin bill. The Crimson won the games by 16 to 0 and 10 to 0 scores, respectively...