Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awards for excellence in baseball, crew, and hockey will be given out at the dinner. The list of trophies to be awarded are as follows: in baseball, The Wingate Memorial Cup and the Barrett Wendell, Jr. Trophy; in crew, the Bruce Finlay Vanderveer Trophy; in hockey, the Angier Trophy and the John Tudor Memorial Hockey...
...people who like to see an involved, if improbable, tale cleverly unraveled, Piper Paid should have genuine appeal. A near-suicide, two bogus psychiatric tricks and a great deal of hysterical acting by Edith Barrett wind up an anecdote whose moral seems to be that no matter how much devilment a woman may cause, if she suffers loudly enough she may be judged to have made recompense...
...comes close to making good on both boasts. What little dirt there is is pay dirt, and Producer Dowling has prodigally hired for his richly-set circus: clowns (Miss Dooley & Mr. Clark), dancers (Paul Draper & Hal Le Roy), singers (the Pickens Sisters & J. Harold Murray), travesty artists (Sheila Barrett & Eddie Garr...
Since a large proportion of the students of the University have already seen "The Barretts" in the film or play version or both, or have at least heard enough about it, we shall add only a few remarks to the ever increasing stack of reviews already in existence. But if there be in the University any people who have not yet seen this picture, we urge them to take this final opportunity. Those who saw Miss Cornell's performance can go without fear that they will be too greatly disappointed, for in the screen version the emphasis has been shifted...
Allure (by Leigh Burton Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...