Word: vails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solitaire Man," a screen drama adapted from the play by Bella and Samuel Spewack, directed by Jack Conway and presented by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer at the Loew's State Theatre with the following cast: Oliver Herbert Marshall Mrs. Hopkins Mary Boland Wallace Lionel Atwill Mrs. Vail May Robson Helen Elizabeth Allen Bascom Ralph Forbes Mrs. Peabody Lucille Gleason Mr. Peabody Robert McWade...
Selling stolen jewels to gullible American made ladies, dramatically watching the croupier gather in their last chips at Monte Carlo signifying that Mrs. Vail would have to dispense with another heirloom the four comrades in crime, Oliver. Mrs. Vail, Helen and Bascom, roamed across the continent cheating the rich and law. And were they not justified? The Great War had been cruel. Enough of that Solemly Oliver declares that he has bought an estate in Devonshire so that they can retire to respectability. Helen has consented of marry him: life is once again roseate. But Bascom, the uncurable dope-flend...
...group, are not of the human race. They move, like a James Branch Cabel Wotan, in a Valhalla of their own making. Not that they are much given to Walkuere-Quite the reverse. But they are absolute in their own spheres, they have the prerogative, a sort of vail as compensation for the numerous inconveniences which they suffer in their office, of doing much as they please. They may flick cigarettes from the mouths of undergraduates who violate the no-smoking rules, or bash in the felt crown of impolite sophomores, with equal impunity. Of course, they run a risk...
...part of George Lewis, the stupid vaudeville trooper who becomes the idel of Hollywood, and Miss Aline MacMahon in the part of May Daniels shows a dramatic talent which is seldom found in the movies, and seldom left unspoiled when found. The other roles, particularly that of Laurence Vail, the playwright marooned in a movie studio, are well cast...
...Boston last week a congress of art directors from all over the U. S. assembled in the Museum of Fine Arts to discuss their problems and their prospects. They were told that new art museums, despite Depression, continue to sprout like mushrooms over the continent. Said Director Laurence Vail Coleman...