Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brain Truster Landis was considered to have one of the keenest legal minds in the nation. He helped draw up the Securities Act and the Exchange Control Act and later became chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission. While in Washington he was one of the closest and most trusted of the President's advisers
...Carl Schurz, High School Choir sing for the teachers until its three accompanists had each paid a $12 "standby" fee. Officials in the; Teachers Association grumbled that Mr.' Petrillo had "practically eliminated" Chicago as a future convention ground. The Chicago News bit deeper: "Mr. Petrillo's ungracious act will suggest to some that a form of terrorism is still rampant in Chicago...
...subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair and Sir Cedric wandering vaguely off the set, spectators cannot tell for sure if the play or just the act is over...
...Harvard (TIME, Sept. 14) though he "never spoke to a living soul" while he was there, returned to his native Manhattan to join the Washington Square Players, drove an ambulance in Italy in the War, stage-managed in Paris for Jacques Copeau, returned to the U. S. to act in Greek tragedies, work in a publishing house. Three years ago he published a graphic, scholarly presentation of four Renaissance figures (The Man of the Renaissance, TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Longer (629 pp.), less brilliant, Catherine de' Medici is also more ambitious, seeks to unravel the mazy meshes...
...easily outclasses Ginger Rogers. However, James Stewart, the mellow almost inaudible tenor, is no Astaire, and if it weren't for his ingratiating boyish shyness, he would detract from the film. The clever Reginald Gardinev leads a neat touch with a fantastic impersonation of Stokowski and his baton, an act which he repeats in "The Show Is On". Supplementing Eleanor Powell's nimble feet are those of Georges and Jains, a graceful, aristocratic dance team...