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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"To Marry With Love" is no blot on the escutcheons of Warner Baxter or Myrna Loy, for the script's the script--stretch it, pamper it, bolster it as you may. The show starts with the marriage of Baxter and Myrna Loy, he a conscientious, hard-working architect; and she...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

If even the fundamental character of Harvard had left its impression on Mr. Roosevelt during his undergraduate days, he would now find it impossible to lead the New Deal. For almost two centuries and a half the leaders of this University fought for one ideal against church and state. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHOSE CHILD ARE YOU? | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

Being the oldest and probably most prominent American university, Harvard has naturally turned out men of every political color. Mr. Roosevelt is a famous graduate, but his character hardly coincides with that of the men who have made his University great. Critics who are trying to find a cause for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHOSE CHILD ARE YOU? | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

Sometimes the results desired are sought through the impositions of teacher's oaths. Sometimes by more direct methods, but the outcome is always the same, i.e., the assignment to busy-bodies, often moronic in mentality, of the power to terrorize able and honest teachers, with the ultimate ruin of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAIN DRIVES FINAL CEREMONY TO SANDERS | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

TIME TO KILL-Rearden Conner- Knopf ($2.50). Character study of a pathological killer, written with lurid evocations of the bloody details, by the author of Shake Hands with the Devil.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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