Word: victorias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Throughout the whole of Canada, from Halifax to Victoria, from North Portal to The Pas, there are only eleven commercial banks. Canadian banking is branch banking in finest flower. But Canada is unique in that it has no central bank of issue, no Federal Reserve, no bankers' bank. Last week Premier Richard Bedford Bennett prepared to give the Dominion a quasi-public institution modeled after the venerable Bank of England...
Sombre mahogany panelled walls, dark red plush hangings, massive carved doors, yellow tapers flickering before two bronze urns set in niches of the wall--the sitting room of the Van Bret mansion of Fifth Avenue in 1910; in this atmosphere, and as an integral part of it, appears Victoria Van Bret; guardian of the Van Bret millions, tyrant of the Van Bret household. Around the commanding presence and warped soul of this queenly spinster revolves a tense drama of hate and fear, swelling in an unvarying crescendo of emotional strain to a brilliant climax in the last scene. "Double Door...
...story is comparatively simple, and of no great significance. Victoria Van Bret, by virtue of a stronger will, has gained complete domination over her younger sister and still younger brother. When the last male representative of the line marries a nurse, Victoria determines to break up the marriage and force him into espousal of a girl of his own class. She fails, but magnificently. The "double door," concealing a secret sound proof chamber, is first her weapon and last her undoing, but always the force shaping her destiny and her family...
Mary Morris, who gained early experience in the 47 Workshop while at Radcliffe, is perfectly cast as Victoria, and proves her right to be considered a leading actress. The rest of the cast is competent, the set is superb, and the production on the whole amply justifies its Broadway success...
...Royal Indian Navy is a paper promise to His Majesty's nut-brown subjects, but from the potent Imperial East Indies Station went Vice-Admiral Dunbar-Nasmith who won his Victoria Cross by torpedoing and sinking from his submarine Ell precisely eleven Turkish ships...