Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Plan, expounded by leonine War Minister Maitre Joseph Paul-Boncour (TIME, Nov. 14), promised to Germans a form of "arms equality" which the German Press ridiculed last week as "Utopian," "Platonic" and "a very clever scheme to preserve" French supremacy...
Dear Jane (by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley; Civic Repertory Theatre, producer). ''Acting," wrote Novelist Jane Austen, "seldom satisfied me." It is inconceivable that either the acting or the playwriting of Dear Jane, a dramatic biography of clever Novelist Austen, would have satisfied her. Seldom if ever has the capable Civic Repertory company dulled its fine tools on material so obdurate...
...head. Auburn (Alabama Polytechnic Institute) has an extraordinary football team, called "Tigers" or "Plainsmen." Its coach is Chet Wynne, Notre Dame fullback in 1921. Captain and left halfback is Jimmy Hitchcock, baldish, small, fast, whom Auburn publicists like to compare with famed Red Grange. Quarterback "Ripper" Williams is a clever arrogant field general. The Tigers have a chinless end, David ("Gump") Ariail, who may make the All-American, a stuttering sophomore end named Bennie Fenton. So far this season. Auburn has made 255 points to its opponent's 34. Last week Auburn emerged from a close shave...
Once in a Lifetime (Universal). When Universal bought their play from Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the authors had every reason to expect that it would be changed considerably in being adapted for the cinema, which they had roundly flayed. Instead, Universal was clever enough to throw a few pebbles at its own glass house. Like the play, the picture chuckles at Hollywood for its illiteracy and vanity. Only the fact that Once in a Lifetime was made there withdraws some of the sting from its satire and makes it more farce than castigation...
...driving at. Though many a Junior Leaguer felt called upon to rave over Orlando, though some who bought or borrowed it managed to wade through The Waves, few in any league would have chosen to make their enthusiasm coherent. Virginia Woolf is certainly no labyrinthine monster, monstrous clever though she be, but her readers, like a lot of Little Red Riding Hoods, are apt to mistake her for a kindly old grandmother...