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...material for all sorts of novelists, playwrights, and historians. "The Private Lives of Henry VIII" attempts to deal only with four of his marriages, throwing in a few lines here and there just to show that the king was interested in matters outside the field of sex. Some years ago a British writer observed that the great Tudor had become completely identified with the person of Charles Laughton in the mind of the typical schoolboy. His performance in this 1933 film is classic; whether historically accurate or not, the picture of Henry VIII in the mind of the average...
...20th Century-Fox) features a group of talented actors pretending unsuccessfully to be characters in a play by Oscar Wilde. At its original best, 57 years ago, Lady Windermere's Fan was little more than a stylish vehicle for Wilde's wicked quips and epigrams. At its 20th Century movie worst, it emerges as a sentimental woman's drama-a sort of Stella Dallas in turn-of-the-century stays...
...their discovery, the expedition, aided by students from the University of New Mexico, spent three months excavating the area, under the direction of John O. Brew, Director of the Peabody Museum. According to authorities the Bat Cave area was once the site of Indian hunting camps, several thousands years ago...
Seymour was inaugurated as Yale's fifteenth president in 1937. Born in New Haven 64 years ago, the son of a Yale professor, he received his bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in England and another from Yale...
...couple of young men from Cambridge University, England, argued that it would have been better all around if America had remained under the British crown. A couple of Harvard students in reply insisted that July 4 was worth celebrating. This reminds us of an incident which occurred some years ago on ship-board. It was the Fourth of July and a young Englishman found it most amusing to tell his American acquaintances that "in England we call it 'Thanks-giving.'" He kept repeating his joke until an American girl remarked that she had always supposed the British called it Christmas...