Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Case of the Curious Bride (Warner). Perry Mason (Warren William) belongs to the new school of cinema detectives. A lawyer by profession, an amateur chef by avocation, he investigates crime mainly for his own exhilaration. In The Case of the Curious Bride he is thrown into a state of high good humor when an old friend (Margaret Lindsay) pries him out of the kitchen to announce that her first husband, whom she thought dead, has reappeared, complicating her relations with her second, wastrel son of a millionaire. When he goes to call on the first husband and finds him murdered...
...degenerates, enjoy a manic period of which wisecracks are the symptoms, started with The Thin Man. The Case of the Curious Bride is a less adroit, less original picture but the speed of Michael Curtiz' direction manages to create somewhat the same mixture of tension and amusement. Warren William, fast becoming Hollywood's No.1 exponent of deductive reasoning, is aided enormously by Claire Dodd in her first cinema performance as a nice girl...
...Died. Warren Delano Robbins, 49, U. S. Minister to Canada, first cousin of President Roosevelt; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A career diplomat since 1909, he became chief of the Division of Protocol of the State Department in 1931, Minister to Canada...
Died. Mrs. Abigail Harding Lewis, 59, onetime school teacher, sister of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding; of heart disease; in Marion, Ohio...
...family of four. They awarded the grand prize ($2,500) in the first group to a drawing of a modern, flat-roofed home by Hays & Simpson of Cleveland, the grand prize in the second group to a California ranch-type house by Paul Schweikher and Theodore Warren Lamb of Chicago. General Electric plans to turn these drawings and ten other prize-winners over to real estate dealers to build 400 houses, for which G. E. will presumably supply electrical equipment...