Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bachelor Father (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A bachelor, lonely in his old age, invites his illegitimate children of various nationalities to come and live with him. One of them-the one he feels is most like him-turns out to be not his daughter after all. Such components were all right when Belasco produced The Bachelor Father on Broadway but they offered a grave moral problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. That great organization rose brilliantly to the emergency, however; they changed the bachelor into a married man. The comedy has lost some of its pace, but the circumloquacious dialog...
Planner Anderson. Most constructive was Commissioner Anderson, big. blond bachelor, able Richmond lawyer, smart Republican politician, long-time Dry. Last summer Mr. Anderson went to Europe, studied first-hand the Bratt system of liquor-control in Sweden, gathered other material on which to devise a liquor-selling system for the U. S. The ''Anderson Plan" was a highlight of the separate opinions which won the endorsement of five other Commissioners...
Coolidge. Away, away to Rio de Janeiro Mrs. Harold J. Coolidge, Boston social registerite is shortly sailing. It so happens that Edwin Vernon Morgan, the 65-year-old U. S. Ambassador to Brazil is a bachelor. After her 5493-mile journey, which will take three weeks, Mrs. Coolidge (no relation) will act as "official hostess'' for one night at a U. S. Embassy ball which, it is hoped, will be attended by Edward of Wales...
This can hardly be held against it, as long as it amuses, and yet comparing it to "The Bachelor Father," another and much more amusing endeavor of Dr. Belasco's, it ends up far in the ruck. The thin matter, of which the play is cast, happens in this case to be illegitimacy of birth, but in this instance it is prospective not retrospective...
Gibson took his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1928, and will represent Virginia next fall at Oxford. Harley graduated last year from Lehigh University, and is now doing graduate work in English. Hayes was in the Class of 1930 at Yale, and Pettigrove graduated the same year from Bowdoin College. Among Holden's activities as an undergraduate are listed University polo and the position of Treasurer of the Dramatic Club. In his Freshman year he was on the debating and dramatic clubs; last year he was manager of the Cercle Francais and one of the nominees...