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Miss Fontanne had a difficult characterization in Elizabeth for she was a rather colorless, weak sort as the author paints her, and it is hard to make such a person vital in such a play. Aside from her diction and a few unrestrained dramatics that were difficult to avoid, however, she turned in a creditable performance. Mr. Lunt assisted her with no great brilliancy, but as well as his lines would permit. And if the Court Fool was the epitome of Elizabethan wit and humor, "merrie England" is a euphemism...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/10/1931 | See Source »

...Quiet, colorless, eminently righteous is the Chicago Evening Post. It boasts the best financial, society and art pages in Chicago but is conservative to the point of impotence in local controversies. Last week bald, tight-lipped John Charles Shaffer, 77, publisher of the Post for 30 years and of the Indiana Star group, let the Post go into receivership, apparently to become a mouthpiece for loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson. The Post had lost money consistently, recently as much as $75,000 a year. Receivers were George Fulmer Getz, millionaire coal dealer, and his partner Charles Fitzmorris, onetime police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Crosby v. Capone | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The decadent, artificial perfume which, springing from La Dame Aux Camelias, saturated with its nostalgia the boudoir literature of four decades, is revived strongly for Greta Garbo's third talking picture. She is a studio model, mistress of many men, who falls in love with a colorless young socialite. Robert Montgomery leaves her when he finds out about her bygone irregularities, but after a break he takes her back again. When his family decides that it is time for him to marry, Garbo goes away. The way this tale is told is as old as the material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Tonight at 8.30 o'clock at the Boston Garden, the University hockey sextet, which opened its season last Thursday with a rather colorless 7 to 2 victory over Technology, will meet the first real opposition of the season at the hands of the strong University Club team, which includes many former college stars in its ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKATERS TO FACE UNIVERSITY CLUB IN GARDEN SCRAP | 12/17/1930 | See Source »

...week by Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale's famed coach for ten years who three years ago retired to his New Haven coal business. Tad Jones remembers 26 years of Big Three football. He was All-American quarterback himself in 1907. He was a hard-working but colorless coach; he originated few plays though he had the reputation of having invented some which he borrowed from his smart brother Howard J., who coaches University of Southern California. "Get rid of Jones- he's a boy scout leader," said Yale's Old Guard when the team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-American | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

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