Word: uptowners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...positively identified as the man who passed a $10 ransom bill at an uptown Manhattan filling station; he had $20 of the ransom money on him when arrested and $14.590 more was found in his garage. 2) Isidor Fisch, Hauptmann's partner in random business ventures, used ransom money to pay his passage back to Ger many, where Fisch died of tuberculosis in 1933. 3) The handwriting on the note left in the baby's crib and subsequent ransom notes tallies with the handwriting on Hauptmann's automobile license application. 4) The man who wrote the ransom...
...moldy patina of an old meerschaum pipe is the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Each year it selects one of its members for special glorification. Being thus glorified last week was one of the Academy's most distinguished members, Charles Dana Gibson. On the walls of its uptown Manhattan headquarters hung the largest exhibition he has ever given, 162 drawings and paintings dating from an anti-Tammany cartoon of 1888 to a stack of flashily painted portrait sketches and landscapes done this summer at Dark Harbor, Maine...
...Count of Monte Cristo" after a sensational three week run at the Keith Memorial Theatre is running this week at the Uptown Theatre. It is one of the finest pictures of the season and has enjoyed a just popularity. The Uptown is also showing that colorful, rhythmic short film entitled "La Cucaraclfa". Based on the picturesque song of Villa's swash-bucklers it is filmed in color and presents some very capable dancing and singing...
...Uptown: "The Count of Monte Cristo"--excellent adaptation of Dumas' thrilling story of adventure, love, and revenge a la mode under the last of France's Bourbon monarchs. Robert Donat, who was last seen in "Henry the Eighth" does yeoman work in the leading role and is capably supported by Elissa Landi and Louis Alberni who is at his explosive best. Also, "La Cucaracha"--colorful short based upon the song of Villa's men--captivatingly sung and danced...
...Uptown: "The Fountain"--This film is based on the famous novel of Charles Morgan. Ann Harding is in the leading role, and she is supported by Charles Morgan, Brian Ahern, Paul Lucas, Jean Hersholt, and Ralph Forbes. On the same program will be "Now and Forever", the same picture which is showing at the Modern...