Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great asset is Shakespeare's hoary plot about twin sets of masters and slaves, one set married, the other not, one set from Ephesus, the other from Syracuse, who get hold of the wrong latchkeys, land in the wrong boudoirs, mix everybody up, finally mix up themselves. But the plot is daffy enough to start the fun rolling. Once started, nothing can stop...
...Hardy Family tradition; it has the delightful humor of teen age romance; it has the homely and appealing simplicity of a down-to-earth plot; and it has the skillful directing which makes for smooth, leisurely exposition. More important than all this, however, it has that great, single asset of any picture: Deanna Durbin's voice. Better than ever before, especially in the higher ranges, it renders both opera and "A Bicycle Built For Two" with equally charming, careless abandon. Melvyn Douglas, as the unwitting object of Deanna's "eternal" devotion, and Jackie Cooper, as the patient, long-suffering true...
Whether or not continued pleas by Central Square patriots will have the desired effect of making the University " a city within a city" is more or less up to the Legislature now, but there's more than one college that has found political independence a decided asset...
...many case, the show is slow starting, slow in development, and uninspiring in denouncement. Ina Claire as the matron is easily the outstanding asset, but she might do well to brush up on her lines...
...about Allied's portfolio was its total ($92,000,000 in 1932). Because there were accepted rumors that it was composed of nothing but blue chips. Wall Street was horrified when Orlando Weber was badgered five years ago into admitting that the biggest single holding listed as an asset was really a liability - $31,000,000 of Allied's own stock...