Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager in England and as the producer of her pictures I appeal to your sense of fairness to right the harm done her in this matter...
...place in her Manhattan Civic Repertory company. Actress Le Gallienne dismissed her saying, "I can see your attitude toward the theatre is not sincere. . . . You are a frivolous little girl." Three years later, after a year with Universal Pictures, she was dismissed again, for lack of sex appeal. "I can't imagine any guy giving her a tumble," pronounced Carl ("Junior") Laemmle, 23-year-old Hollywood producer-genius...
Last week, had they cared to, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, after a lacklustre season of her own, and Junior Laemmle, out of a job at 30, might have seen Actress Bette Davis, with plenty of sincerity and more than a dash of sex appeal, demonstrate that she is well worth the $3,500-odd a week Warner Brothers now pay her 40 weeks of the year...
...ruled on in Court. Last year, the Supreme Court refused to review the case on the ground that Convict Mooney had not yet "exhausted every resource'' in the lower courts. Last autumn, the California Supreme Court handed down a verdict against Convict Mooney which enabled him to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court a second time on the grounds that he was denied his constitutional rights. Final Supreme Court decision on Convict Mooney is likely to be handed down this spring...
...wish your cause success. Mr. De Voto brought English composition at Harvard back to the field's great days under Barrett Wendell and Copie; in addition, he gave a vigorous treatment of contemporary American literature, which seems highly important for the Harvard undergraduate. His courses were not "aesthetic" in appeal, and he taught no sterile tradition of polite letters. . . . It would be a great pity if Harvard should ignore or reject a man whom it has helped to make one of the significant American critics of the day. Hugh Mason Wade...