Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's stage hits, is a macabre melodrama of a woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
William L. Bragg professor at Victoria University, Manchester, England, will speak on "Intermetallic Compounds" Friday afternoon in the large lecture room of Jefferson Laboratory at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
Last week Chao Kung turned up in Victoria, B. C. Canadian officials offered no nonsense. Apparently well supplied with money, dressed in a black satin robe and accompanied by ten male and female Buddhists, Chao Kung said: "I want to be friends with the British and the world in general." He announced he would cross the continent, deliver some lectures, proceed to Germany. He explained that (like Locanatha Bhikkhu) he is a vegetarian. "It is not that we believe in unnecessarily castigating the body, but we believe the mind works better if the body is fed less. Buddhism demands precise...
...tragic Nymph whose constancy is the most poignant picture of adolescent girlhood since Maedchen in Uniform, British Cinemactress Victoria Hopper gives a tender, sensitive, haunting performance. Dodd is Brian Aherne, the British actor who played Robert Browning to Katharine Cornell's Elizabeth Barrett on the stage. Undistinguished opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs, he exhibits in this film vast improvement...
...eldest son, the easy-bleeding Count of Covadonga who renounced his rights to Spain's empty throne last year by marrying a Cuban girl, lay ill with influenza in Paris last week. To his bedside and to meet his wife-nurse for the first time went his mother, Victoria, and his two sisters...