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...fatherly Actor Kane, to Author Wolfson, to Director Worthington Miner, to Producer Wilson (on his own for the first time without Noel Coward) and to a large, excellent and largely indistinguishable cast went critical acclaim unusual for the spring or any other part of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

When Yale last month made basketball a major sport Harvard was left as the only campus in the Eastern circuit where hoopsters are wearing minor letters. Only New England still lags a little behind the rest of the country in their popular acclaim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL BACKS BASKETBALL FOR MAJOR SPORT | 3/25/1937 | See Source »

...plot, although occasionally amusing, is at best a feeble affair. The small measure of acclaim the book deserves is owing to the character portrayal. Major Daviot, Captain Bradford, Mrs. Bradford, Lord Pontefract and some of the other important characters are well-delineated. This much is to be expected, for Mary Borden and her husband, Brigadier-General E. L. Spears, move in circles similar to those she describes, with officers living beyond their means and trying to counter-balance the everyday boredom of peacetime military existence by gambling for high stakes and similar diversions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...TIME, Jan. 22, 1934). The Navy's high command modestly waved aside the acclaim that followed this remarkable flight, said it was merely a rou tine transfer of men and equipment. Last week the Navy effected another "routine transfer of men and equipment," sur passed Squadron VP-10's mass-flight record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Routine Record | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Europe in 1934, the film was bought by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reproduced completely year and a half ago as Escapade, with Luise Rainer in the lead. So good was MGM's job that Actress Rainer was catapulted to Hollywood stardom. Meanwhile the original cinema was winning acclaim in Europe. Last week, with Escapade well out of the way, MGM allowed the original Masquerade in Vienna to appear in the U. S. for the first time. Many critics declared it better than its celebrated copy. The lead is played by the experienced European actress, Paula Wessely, who fully equals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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