Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia production "Twentieth Century," at RKO Keith's this week, affords an excellent antidote for Divisional post mortems or a pleasing apertif for finals, as the case may be Based on the show hit "Napoleon of Broadway," this saga of the stage was dressed up to Hollywood style by Ben Heeht and Charles Mac Arthur who gave it new lines, exaggerated the heroic, and knew John Barrymore would have the lead. Unlike its predecessors of the "Shanghai Express" variety, "Twentieth Century" has no villains, bandits, or languishing females, but is graced with a frantic, egomaniae producer (John Barrymore), his irrepressive...
...casting Barrymore as flourishing Oscar Jaffee, Columbia has found a way to please old fans who like his profile, gestures, gesticulations, etc.,. and at the same time to acquire new admirers, for John plays his fantastic comedy to perfection. "Twentieth Century" is a pleasing vehicle for the display of her charms and talent...
...woman physician, is head of Tientsin's Women's Hospital. When she finishes at Bryn Mawr next year Vung-Yuin Ting plans to go to the University of Michigan Medical School, then back to Shanghai to practice with Dr. Zoong Ing Ting. In Manhattan last week Columbia University Press announced publication of Eleanor Gertrude Brown's Ph. D. dissertation on Milton's Blindness. "No one," wrote she, "would deny that blindness has its deprivations. That it has its compensations is recognized by every sightless person." Eleanor Brown, 46, was born blind. Scholarships and loans from women...
Besides pride and pleasure Pulitzer Prizes generally generate a good deal of professional controversy. The 1934 awards made last week at Columbia University were no exceptions. Losers made almost as much news as winners when the recommendations of special juries to pick the best novel, the best history and the best play (see p. 48), were overridden by the prize-awarding board. Only in the field of journalism did there seem to be a notable unanimity of choice. Yet no award was more astonishing than that of the $500 gold medal "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered...
...Author, young (28), Manhattan-born, went to an Ethical Culture school, Swarthmore College and the Columbia School of Journalism, then did publicity work and odd jobs on Manhattan newspapers. She has traveled widely in Europe, is still a spinster. At present she is teaching something called "creative writing" at a girls' school (Briarcliff Manor...