Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be unjust to say that this mountainous production has labored mightily and brought forth a mouse, but it certainly has brought forth no result comparable to its size, Weighted down its own tremendousness, they play loses its sense of movement, purpose, direction, and sprawls out into a series of isolated scenes. Even this impressionistic, kaleidoscopic technique might have created a unified effect had the production staff been able to set and maintain a snappy pace. But many of the scenes were punctuated with lengthy pauses, the sense of continuity sinking further and further into the background with each succeeding...
Surrounded by such dignitaries as President Conant, Alfred North Whitehead, Heinrich Bruening, Dean Hanford, and host Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, Harvard's president from 1909 to 1933 performed the now traditional ceremony of cutting his birthday cake, which was brought in by famed Bellboy hostess Mrs. Mary Healey...
...where grappler-manager Tudor Gardiner holds forth. Big Vern Miller will undoubtedly learn a lot of wrestling in a few weeks under Pat Johnson, but hard-working Gardiner will give him a good battle before being displaced. Dick Harlow's endorsement of wrestling for many of his linemen has brought quite a few big boys up to the black mat on the second floor. Chub Peabody, Don Lowry, and Jim Grunig have all decided-to have a fling at the sport...
...been suffering for some time from a throat ailment which, he believes, was caused by 55 hours of uninterrupted emergency work during the hurricane of September, 1938. Careful nursing has brought his health back to the point where a measure of hoarseness is all that's wrong with him, and even this will be gone, he expects, by springtime, when he will have to use his voice to utter stentorian "break...
Another Thin Man is the third working.* Shot in 36 days with extreme care by the same producer and director, again using a script by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, it brought back William Powell as smart Detective Nick Charles, Myrna Loy as Nora, his imperturbable wife, Asta (cranky and snappy after a nervous breakdown) as their dog. It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania. Nick and Nora take the pandemonium that passes for their domestic life with the same unquenchable good humor, poise, charm and thirst...