Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durbin, the kind of a girl you would like to have a little later on. But just the same, if you haven't absorbed too much ultra sophistication from the ancient halls of Harvard, you will enjoy "Three Smart Girls Grow Up." There is a script that is always bright and sometimes scintillates. There are some delightful scenes in the parlor where Deanna tries to straighten out her sisters' love affairs. There is some superlative humor contributed by the absent minded Charles Winninger. There is some simple, tuneful music, and there isn't much sentimentality. Above all there...
From the sprawling Consolidated Aircraft Corp. factory on Lindbergh Field a huge flying boat waddled down to land-locked San Diego Bay one day last week. In the bright California sun her slim wing looked absurdly frail, her huge hull with its upswept stern grotesquely fat. Nevertheless, her little band of professional observers knew they were watching a plane designed to be the last aerodynamic word...
...night it was filled with hundreds of men with starched white bosoms, and hundreds of rustling ladies. Back of them stood a new, long, spacious building faced with marble and glass; inside it other crowds could be seen, swishing past its plate-glass panels like frilly fish in a bright aquarium. Occasion for these beautiful doings was the formal opening of the long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company...
...Rockefeller's collection in 1935. The Museum acquired an energetic executive director, Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr., an able assistant curator of painting & sculpture, Dorothy Miller, a learned manager of publications, Frances Collins, to edit its unexpectedly successful books. In 1935 the Film Library was created under bright-eyed Iris Barry and her husband, John Abbott, received a Rockefeller Foundation grant...
...there was a bright side of the picture, too. Jim Lightbody, shifted into the 880 in a desperate bid for points, scored a stunning 1:54.1 victory in the half. And Bill Shallow outdid himself with a tremendous 170 foot, one inch hammer heave to capture first place and set a new meet record. Dick Sears took fifth in the same event...