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...Crystal Springs with gossip galore and is a match for the town's society leader whose son falls in love with the "unmentionable" Bisbee's daughter. Jean Marsh plays the daughter and is charming in the role. Larry Crabbe as the son of the society dame is adequate but colorless. Though many of the scenes are overdone nevertheless the antics of Fields never grow tiresome. The picture is recommended to arouse the student bored with exams from the lethargy of the season...

Author: By J. H. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/8/1934 | See Source »

...millions of years of travel. Once as fervid a believer in the expanding universe as Sir Arthur Eddington, Dr. Hubble was ready last week to admit that it might be an illusion. "The cautious observer," said he wryly, "refrains from committing himself to the present interpretation and employs the colorless term 'apparent velocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmology | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

They said: "He has no friends. He is absolutely colorless. He is dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ten Men at a Table | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...colorless, reticent onetime drug clerk, Dr. Moyer was snatched from an undistinguished career as a clinical pathologist to guard Pittsburgh's health. Around him last week swirled the same charges of suppression which were piled on Chicago's Health President Bundesen after he made his long-delayed announcement of the amebic dysentery epidemic last autumn. It seemed evident that Pittsburgh's Health Department had suspected something wrong since mid-January, when McCreery's and another pet shop received dead and dying birds in shipments from California. The Department quarantined all the birds for ten days, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Parrots in Pittsburgh | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...Keith's--"It Happened One Night." Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable romp about on a night bus until . . . the inevitable. Nevertheless recommended for colorless, but pleasant acting by Miss Colbert, and for the amusing dialogue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/15/1934 | See Source »

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