Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filmed in a churchly murk illumined with twinkling candles and rare shafts of sunlight. Arresting shots: nuns wielding pickaxes, laying bricks, pecking typewriters, operating a printing press; penitents sewing under the watchful eyes of Magdalens; a single nun prostrating herself face down; nuns swirling to & fro before a classic portico; the great scenes of investiture in which the nuns are given wreaths of orange blossoms to signify their marriage to the Son of God and the Mag-dalens crowned with thorns as a symbol that their need for penance is not over...
...heads Bos ton's famed Old Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four Cox horses led the field. The Brothers Cox stem from pre-Revolutionary New Hampshire stock, were raised in Manchester, where their father was in business. John Hancock's Cox earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Dart mouth (Class of 1893). He then studied law at Boston University, was long...
Till We Meet Again (Paramount). To the classic formula of two spies in love has been added a new angle-a third spy, also in love. Ludwig (Lionel Atwill) is a German agent who is in love with Elsa (Gertrude Michael) who is in love with an English actor named Alan (Herbert Marshall). When war is declared on the night before Elsa was to have married Alan, Ludwig forces the girl to take a secret service assignment that will separate her, presumably forever, from her fiance. When they meet again, Elsa and Alan are not troubled by the loyalty...
...conventional, learned; to scholars for his masterly editing of minor Latin Poets (Manilius. Juvenal, Lucan) and his blasting criticisms of slipshod predecessors; he was known to the world for his two thin books of verse. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. Published 26 years apart, their lucid pessimism and classic simplicity made him one of the most popular, most quotable poets of modern times. A stoical poet who wrote his verse as a bitter antidote to the poison of sentimentality, he put down his own epitaph in the lines...
...Pecheur D'Islande" is a conscientious rendition of Pierre Loti's moving tragedy, but somewhat of a disappointment for those whose expectations were proportioned to the magnitude of the classic original. In part, at least, the inferiority is the result of a foolish shift of emphasis, naturally invited by the new medium, from the great, basic ideas of the drama to the incidental episodes...