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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although MGM has finally severed the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy due, owing to the "Sweetheart" fiasco, they just couldn't keep them completely apart. The lovers are now sharing the double bill at Loew's State and Orpheum with a change in soul-mates...
After postulating that facial characteristics set the Jews apart, that they are "a people representing the supersophisticated product of intensive selection and long-continued evolution," Dr. Hooton proceeds to embark upon "a discussion which will arouse the ire of many an idealistic democrat with an inferiority complex and of all scientists who labor under the delusion that only negative findings are sound." Says...
...rostrum, and gave a short talk on Robert Herrick, the seventeenth century lyricist. Thus with the gay lines of the poet, he wrote "Finis" to his long career as one of the foremost scholars of his time a career that is remarkable in its contribution to learning. Dr. Lowes, apart from having gained invaluable experience in colleges throughout the country, has written many books on English Literature. His "The Road to Xanadu" is an analysis of Coleridge and his poetry, and "Convention and Revolt in Poetry" is another of his most significant works. Profession Lowes is one of the foremost...
...leaf of the oak tree is as big as a mouse's ear. Enough corn for an average family can be planted by digging up a section of Fifth Avenue about fifty feet long and seven feet wide and planting two rows of hills about three feet apart...
...most part, dependent upon melodramatic action, but rather upon the subtle shades of acting. Yet the best acting, the best characterizations, are done by the supporting cast and not, strangely enough, by Mr. Laughton. His portrayal of Ginger Ted is consistent neither in mood nor in quality of acting. Apart from the essential change in Ginger Ted's character as required by the plot, Mr. Laughton has added so many minor oscillations that he leaves no fixed conception. Perhaps this flexibility of Ted's personality was preconceived in Mr. Laughton's mind. If so, he over-emphasized the flexibility...