Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathetic impulses are guided by a hard head or a hot hunch, Broadway wiseacres pointed to his phenomenal success with last season's Room Service, which he sold to RKO Radio for $255,000. Room Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes...
...Mona Carter (Joan Blondell) crashes her car through the Wickstead fence, discovers the perfect specimen testing a Newtonian theory by falling out of a tree. With very little urging, Gerald reacts like a perfectly normal and admirably coordinated human. He pursues Mona, impresses her by flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another bout at a truck drivers' picnic, goes to work as a mechanic, conducts a merry courtship while Grandma Wicks and the nation's police beat the bushes for him. Set-tos with such surrealities as mad Poet Killigrew Shawe (Hugh Herbert) and the truckmen give...
Though the faculty is large and well-paid (up to $9,600 for a full professor), it boasts few big names. Outstanding are Short Story Editor Blanche Colton Williams, Philosophers Harry Allen Overstreet and Morris Raphael Cohen, Artist Joseph Cummings Chase. Campus life such as exists in private and State universities is lacking, but City College is trying to supply this with a house plan, Hunter with teacher-student teas...
SELECTED POEMS-Allen Tate-Scribner...
...their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man. Among U. S. poets who chew nutritious cuds are Southern Classicist Allen Tate and Northern Romantic Wallace Stevens...