Word: cedric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cedric Seager and John Bruce Heath, promoters of the Financial Observer, had in mind neither of the paper's models when they agitated it last year. Briton and American, they had in mind the revered London Economist. They hired Novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman (The House of Bondage) for editor, transferred him from the Washington Post to the Observer's Manhattan office. Editor Kauffman appointed as his general manager the Post's General Manager Eugene MacLean. Executive Editor of the Observer is Columbia University's economist, Ralph West Robey...
Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. scored with a knighthood to Great-Grandson Thomas Cook, 34, "the youngest knight dubbed since 1911"; British Broadcasting Corp. with knighthood for its musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing...
...version of Alexandre Dumas' famed tearjerker, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assembled the three best current writers of tearjerkers, the top director of tearjerkers, the screen's No. i tragedienne and the industry's current male box-office sensation. The result, against the lush background of Art Director Cedric Gibbons' notion of 19th Century Paris, equipped with generous measures of sorrow, pictorial beauty, charm, plot, glamour and audience appeal, amounts to a Camillennium...
What this formless interlude in French upper-middle-class family life has got is a characteristic, plush-lined Gilbert Miller production and a fine cast of actors. Chief among them is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, never before seen on a U. S. stage. An exponent of the feather-touch, as the timid, pale grey little Parisian father, his gentle intonations and delicate gestures seem to indicate that he is afraid that grosser activity might jar him loose from the stage and send him floating up in the flies. In direct contrast to Sir Cedric's placidity is Irene Browne...
...able to construe these two as symbols of their mother's condition, and the play as a subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair and Sir Cedric wandering vaguely off the set, spectators cannot tell for sure if the play or just the act is over...