Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleasure Crazed (Fox). This finely made but curiously colorless picture is an example of the talkie producers' fumbling to find a middle ground between stage and cinema. It attempts no broad effects, no cardinal emotions. Its plot, involving a novelist whose wife is unfaithful to him and who finds solace in the love of a girl who has been planted in his house by a gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful...
...Significance. Unlike England's Shaw satirizing human institutions, Hungary's Molnar satirizes human emotions. Since institutions change while human nature does not, lyric Molnar will probably "date" less than pedantic Shaw when later generations take an accounting. Like Shaw, like any playwright with broad genius, Molnar is interested in and can handle all manner of people?slaveys, socialites, policemen, princes?not for what they stand for but as kinds of people underneath. For the proud of this world he has a pathos of precision, for the humble, a tender irony, ridicule softened by tears. His many-mooded plays abound...
...ninth track meet between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge. Each had won four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle, 880-yard run, running broad jump, running high jump. Big stars were two Yale men, long Sid Kieselhorst, little Charlie Engle, each with two firsts. Worried were the Britishers as they left Cambridge, Mass., afterward to prepare for a meet the next Saturday with Princeton-Cornell, at Travers Island. Westchester Co., N. Y. A loss would...
Such were the problems and exercises suggested last week by the U. S. Prohibition Bureau in a broad plan for teaching school children throughout the land "the facts of Prohibition." To collect and disseminate "the facts" Congress had appropriated $50,000. To Miss Anna B. Sutter, Chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Division of Statistics and Education, fell this money and she it was who prepared a course of Prohibition instruction to be placed in all schools. Much to Miss Sutler's chagrin the Government's venture into pedagogy was short-lived...
...Poughkeepsie, N. Y., nine varsity crews set themselves on the broad, current-ribbed Hudson for the biggest crew pageant of the year, the Intercollegiate. Before the start it seemed as if the winner would be either California, coached by bespectacled Carroll "Ky" Ebright, stroked by huge Pete Donlan and considered this year's greatest Western crew, or unbeaten Columbia, coached by Richard Glendon Jr., captained by Horace Davenport, considered this year's greatest Eastern crew. Cornell and the Navy were considered worth watching. Few thought there was much chance of a Wisconsin victory because, on account of late...