Word: baxters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time Warner Baxter is the hero, Lupe Velez the svelte squaw who consoles him on the Arizona prairies. A scion of British aristocracy, he has left England after appropriating the disgrace of an embezzlement committed by a cousin and after saying farewell to the cousin's wife, with whom he is in love. When the cousin's wife, finally a widow, goes to Arizona, the picture has a halfway happy ending because the squaw, having contracted the habit of self-sacrifice, kills herself...
...house-warming dinner at Adams House last night, attended by a group of 50, marked the official opening of a third House Plan unit. The party, including President Lowell, Professor J. P. Baxter, 3rd, Master of the House; Messrs. Shepley and Abbott of the arm of University architects; ten Associates of the House, and 18 tutors, with their wives, dined in the main hall at a large table formed by placing several ones together...
...able to give an equally profitable demonstration of her appealing sweetness and charm. This sentimental romance gives Actress Gaynor a chance to flutter about in an orphan asylum, endearing herself to the authorities by telling stories to the other orphans and feeding them icecream. A youthful philanthropist (Warner Baxter) who sees her in the performance of her good turns finds her behavior so cajoling that he decides to pay her way through college. She, unaware of his identity, sees his shadow distorted on the floor one day and coins a nickname for him, Daddy Long Legs...
...Department of Anthropology will be on leave during the first half year, as will A. G. McAdie '84, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, and A. K. Porter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts. During the second half year, G. P. Baxter '96, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, W. F. Dearborn, professor of Education, director of the Psycho-Educational Clinic, and Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Education, and Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History will be absent, as will F. B. Magoun '90, assistant professor of English...
...northern nations will contribute. Artist Rockwell Kent will be at southern Greenland, more for solitude than for science. David Binney Putnam, 18, as soon as school term ends will go on the Johalla to Labrador and Iceland in order to write another "David Goes" book. Commander Donald Baxter...