Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church Mouse. Some doubt exists as to whether all Hungarian plays not written by Ferenc Molnar are originally dull, or if their dullness is due to the unerringly wooden touch of Frederick & Fanny Hatton who adapt most of them to the U. S. stage. Last month Laszlo Fodor's I Love an Actress was presented in Manhattan. Like an interesting photographic landscape, it had form and pattern but no color. Equally lifeless is A Church Mouse, another load of Fodor which relates the story of a drab little girl who has cunning enough to persuade a rich...
...week's work President Hoover told the Press "The problem of unemployment and relief, whatever it may be, will be met. With the organized co-operation of local, State and Federal authorities, the problem was successfully handled last winter. We shall adapt organization methods in such manner as may be necessary for the coming winter...
...book of Nobel Prize Winner Sinclair Lewis has been effective when filmed. Reason: he is documentary rather than dramatic. Now Samuel Goldwyn has bought screen rights to Arrowsmith, will adapt it for Ronald Colman. Said Lewis: "Arrowsmith is my favorite. ... I know a notable work will be made...
...Royal Family Of Broadway", the screen version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman, is not so much a motion picture as it is a photograph of a play. Being written for the legitimate stage, the Hollywood director has done nothing to adapt the original script to the peculiarities of the camera. The result is satisfactory in as much as it fulfills the purpose of the authors as they wrote for the stage, but all of the possibilities of a picture were not realized...
There have been many educational ventures in recent years attempting to adapt the modern university to the needs of the present day. Such a venture is the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin which Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn has recommended be closed in 1932 in order to conduct a survey of the results attained during its five years of experimental existence...