Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That this will be a news account of the future was announced last week by Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams in a letter to Florida's Representative J. Mark Wilcox, promising $300,000 of WPA funds for the immediate erection of nine storm barracks. During the slack hurricane season, he said, the shelters will be the scene of teaching operations, church sociables...
...Little Lord Fauntleroy," with Freddle Bartholemew, C. Aubrey Smith, capable supporting cast, the audience watches Freddie win the heart of his grandfather--the Lord Dorincourt and everyone else in the cast. Freddie is an unusually talented actor and performs his part, which is sweet and sickly anyway, creditably. You wince every time he calls his mother "Dearest," however, and only in several happy scenes where the old Lord figures are you relieved from monotonous and nerve-racking demonstrations of sorrow. The straight story in "Little Lord Fauntleroy," as a matter of fact, is strongly reminiscent of the burlesque melodrama...
...Aubrey Smith and his dog are trub the bright spots in a picture which might murder the appeal of Freddie Bartholemew for intelligent movie-goers. In "Copperfield" the boy was marvelous Please, Hollywood, don't make him into a male Shirley Temple...
...Brooklyn urchin who makes good in the old country. Handsomely rewritten for the screen by Hugh Walpole, beautifully staged, and superbly directed by John Cromwell, it affords proof that Selznick International is off to a flying start and offers an actors' holiday to Freddie Bartholomew, C. Aubrey Smith and Dolores Costello Barrymore, recalled from retirement to play the role of "Dearest," Fauntleroy's mother...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Aubrey Williams, Executive Director of the National Youth Administration, and Henry N. McCracken, President of Vassar College, will be among the speakers on "Youth and the Modern Curriculum" at the annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association to be held here this Saturday...