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President Conant, Dean Pound of the Law School, and James P. Baxter, 3rd '26, associate professor of History and Master of Adams House, will speak on Wednesday evening, March 18, at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Boston...
...James P. Baxter, 3rd, associate professor of History, recently returned from Cambridge University, England where he delivered lectures on Angle American relations, will be one of the principal speakers at Foreign Polley Association luncheon at 1 o'clock this afternoon at the Copley Plass Hotel...
...story is authentic, based on the tragedy of Dr. Mudd's life. Convicted, in reality, by mob hysteria, to life imprisonment, the doctor who had unwittingly taken care of the injured John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin was sent to America's hell hole off the Florida Coast. Warner Baxter, who contributes perhaps the finest performance of his career in this picture, makes Dr. Mudd the epitome of suffering humanity. The story, ably and imaginatively directed by John Ford, is told in such a simple, straightforward manner that the somewhat fantastic melodramatic details rarely seem exaggerated, and always are powerfully...
...Prisoner of Shark Island, Dr. Mudd is Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall...
...Monday an informal reception was given by the members of the Cambridge University Harvard Club to Professor James Phinney Baxter of Harvard University in the John Harvard rooms in Emmanuel College. About twenty Harvard graduates were present...