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With the plodding thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx...
Recommendations for the awards are made by a committee consisting of Frank B. Jewett, of New York City, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, chairman; Simon Flexner, of New York City, former director of the Laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; and Dr. James Phinney Baxter III, president of Williams College...
Adam Had Four Sons (Columbia). As the stock market is crashing during the 1907 panic, Broker Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) casually tells his secretary: "There's nothing wrong with me that my family won't cure." Forthwith he bustles off to his wife (Fay Wray) and four sons, comfortably settled in an ample Connecticut establishment enlivened by an attractive young governess (Ingrid Bergman). As the Stoddard family bounces along in their touring car or gobbles a big Thanksgiving dinner, they give a pretty picture of opulent early 20th-century existence...
...transition to tragedy and parlor problems burdens the film with more labored histrionics than an oldtime melodrama. As the second U. S. screen appearance of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (Intermezzo) and the first for Warner Baxter in more than a year, it gives neither a chance to show more than their frowns...
...courses 2, 4 and 6 which form the guts of the chemistry department, it was thought wisest to take 4 in the sophomore year and 2 and 6 in the Junior year. 4 on quantitative analysis is given by Baxter, a good if sometimes not overly inspiring lecturer. It centers in the laboratory requiring from ten to eighteen hours a week. 2, under Fleser, while less exacting than 4 is a very thorough introduction into organic chemistry, and is generally considered excellent. Likewise 6 under Wilson in physical chemistry. Math and Physics are particularly necessary background for this latter course...