Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage Mr. Warning presents several pretty girls with various talents as singers, dancers, and even a drum major. The last, a Miss Betty Atkinson, recently twirled the baton for the University of Southern California. While her dancing tnd twirling are not extraordinary, her face and figure are a far cry and a welcome relief from "Harvard coods...
...courses in playwrighting must be added to the Department of English if those men who are interested in the creative aspect of the drama are not to continue neglected by University Hall. Harvard alumni, outstanding in the world of the theatre, such as John Mason Brown or Brooks Atkinson might well be lured back to benefit Harvard with their teachings. The idea is not entirely impractical, either, since Mr. Brown gave a course in playwrighting during the summer session last year. If the present rules regarding the number of composition courses a man may take were maintained, the fact that...
When Amherst's trustees ousted Alexander Meikeljohn (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq.),when Governor Huey P. Long forced Thomas W. Atkinson out of the University of Louisiana, the issues were plain between Reaction and Liberalism. In the La Follette-Frank ouster, the spectacle presented was that of one celebrated Progressive steamrollering another. Had Phil La Follette been a Tory Governor, the outcry from U. S. Liberals would undoubtedly have been prodigious, for along with his smooth exterior and the careful polish which has removed all trace of his native Queen City, Mo.. Glenn Frank has. with facile...
...years ago the late Huey Pierce Long forced out President Thomas W. Atkinson of the University of Louisiana for blatantly political reasons. Last week young Progressive Governor Philip Fox La Follette of Wisconsin appeared to be setting out to do a similar thing...
UnTiMEworthy is the phrase in TIME'S review of Tonight at 8:30 calling Noel Coward's harlequinade the "first smash hit of a middling season." On Oct. 16 (day following opening of Gilbert Miller's Tovarich), owl-eyed Brooks Atkinson of New York Times chuckled, applauded, said: "Tovarich is the season's first hit." On same day, scholarly, professorial looking John Mason Brown of the Post said: "Tovarich is the first smash hit of the season." Richard Watts, Jr., blue-shirted, plumpish pundit of Herald Tribune called Tovarich "the first resounding dramatic smash...