Word: burnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stolen Heaven (Paramount). Nancy Carroll wears pretty clothes and struggles with stupid dialog, with weak direction by George Abbott, and with a story by Dana Burnet that might have been impressive, if thoroughly and patiently dealt with, but that turns out badly. A young man (Phillips Holmes) who has held up a radio factory meets a discouraged girl in a city street late at night. She hides him in her room and, liking each other, they make a bargain. They decide to go to Florida to spend the $20,000 he has stolen; when it is gone, they will commit...
...Confirmed David Burnet of Ohio to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
...succeed Robert Henry Lucas, who resigned to become Executive Director of the G. O. P.. President Hoover appointed David Burnet to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Ten years a tax-collector, Mr. Burnet was promoted from deputy commissioner on merit, not politics...
...Boundary Line is a psychological melange by Dana Burnet about a poet, his wife, a farmer, a lawyer The wife wishes to build a fence around the poet's properties. The farmer objects on the ground that he has a right of way. The poet is willing to accede to the farmer's objection. But the wife hires the lawyer, goes to court, defeats the farmer, who later dies of apoplexy. Finding his marriage torn asunder, the poet departs along the road while his wife seeks solace with the lawyer...
...this were a better play it would be more easily and forcibly discernible that the fence is a symbol for an orthodox snugness within which the conventional wife tries to inclose her imaginative, vaulting husband. But Playwright Burnet's dramatic sense is by no means as lucid as his psychology, and his taste is woeful. The theme is obscured in a plot stuffed with nonessentials. Otto Kruger acts the poet valiantly despite dialog which makes him speak like a moonstruck sixth-former...