Word: butterworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Julian E. Butterworth, director of Cornell's Graduate School of Education, announced a compromise between these extremes. Next fall Cornell will start a five-year training course for high-school teachers. It will stress cultural education, but students will also spend one-fifth of their time learning to understand teaching and children. Most radical advance: tests to weed out unfit teachers at intervals, before they graduate. Students will be required not only to pass their courses but also to give evidence of mental fitness, emotional stability, poise, ability to use the English language properly...
Divorced. Charles Butterworth, 39, radio, stage and film funnyman; by his actress-wife, Ethel Kenyon Sutherland Butterworth; in Los Angeles...
...emotionally overwrought he meets every demand so well that one is convinced he is wasting real talent as America's number one heart throb. Miss Dunne as Mrs. Hudson has a simpler part, but she plays it perfectly. Betty Furness is adequate in a supporting role, and Charlie Butterworth provides welcome relief...
...picture is not of the best, but it does sustain interest, and Charles Butterworth and Charles Winniger should get top honors for the many laughs they provide in this drama of New York at the turn of the century. Both dialogue and action are definitely clean, perhaps suspiciously so. Miss West's fans will find, however, that she wears the gowns of the era to perfection, although they may not like the change from blonde to brunette...
...Hamburg, the son of a double-bass player in the city orchestra. In his early years he was known as a piano virtuoso. At twenty he was slim, stooped, with fair hair and flashing blue eyes; among strangers he acted as shy, as embarrassed, as deferential as Charles Butterworth. His musical idols were Bach and Beethoven, and his weighty style bore traces of both...