Word: baxters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dress is a minor miracle of screen technique. It has been achieved by application of the dramatic law which holds that any situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took her to lunch to find out if she did. Deciding that her answer must be yes, Steve walked out. "If I stay," she told the doctor, "I'll lose my sense of humor, the whole thing will end in a mess...
Excellent is the screenplay (by Lamar Trotti, Darrell Ware and Kathryn Scola) and direction (Walter Lang), but even if it were notable for nothing else. Wife, Doctor and Nurse would make screen history by identifying for the first time the punctilious, intimate manner Warner Baxter has used in all his parts and which appears at last to be the bedside manner of a fashionable surgeon. Good shots: a patient telling Dr. Lewis what she dreams about; an obstetrician getting word his wife has borne a baby; Lewis proposing to Ina while he rips adhesive off her arm; the wedding night...
Adams House is still without a regular House Master and no information is as yet forthcoming on the selection of a new man. Since the departure of Professor James Phinny Baxter 3rd, who left Harvard to become president of Williams College, Raphael Demos, assistant pro-Division of Philosophy and Psychology, fessor of Philosophy and Tutor in the has been Acting House Master. Last year Demos was Senior Tutor in Adams House...
...Adams House as the most likely choice for the position is Charles Holt Taylor, associate professor of History and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics. Taylor has had previous experience in the management of Adams House for he was Acting Master two years ago while Professor Baxter was in Europe...
George Curson (Warner Baxter), third-generation head of the House of Curson, swank Manhattan dress-shop, is busy whipping up a little bridal number for Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging the dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time...