Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lester Lonergan as the colonel gives a good performance. He is co-author of the play. The rest of the cast is not distinguished...
Carboloy or widia, shaped into a cutting tool, carves through cast iron, steel, copper, glass, porcelain, bakelite, mica, rubber, their combinations and what not. Carboloy or widia does everything that the finest, hardest tool steel can do, and many another job. Also they cut at much faster speeds. So efficient are they in stepping up machine shop production and in reducing shop costs, that every machinist must use the new metal, even though its present price is $500 a pound, almost the price of platinum, almost twice the price of gold...
...performances of the individual members of the cast are uniformly of a high standard. Genevieve Tobin acquits herself well as Mary Dugan, a role which requires more skill than work. But even she is outshone by Arthur Hohl as District Attorney Galway. His is a magnificent rendering, packed with difficult situations and humorous touches. He fights a losing battle, but retains throughout a liberal amount of sympathy from friends and foes alike. Robert Williams, as the younger brother Jimmy, makes the most of a popular part...
...appears from the announcement of President Lowell that Harvard University is definitely committed to the plan of subdividing its undergraduate body into small residential groups, somewhat remotely after the Oxford and Cambridge model. The program has been drawn up, the die is cast, and we shall see what we shall...
...Marriage Bed is Ernest Pascal's dramatization of his novel, which attracted by it? By its clinical title, and was swept into the ephemeral list of bestsellers. The play opened last week in Manhattan after a happy spell (with a Hollywood cast) on the Pacific coast (TIME, Oct. 29). Mary Boyd (Ann Davis) the "thirtyish" but personable wife of George Boyd (Allan Dinehart) is apprised, by her meddling mother (Elizabeth Patterson), of Boyd's unfaithfulness. To Rochester he has gone on a business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine...