Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best Production: Farewell to Arms (Paramount), Cavalcade (Fox), 42nd Street (Warners), / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Warners), Lady for a-Day (Columbia), Little Women (Radio), She Done Him Wrong (Paramount), Smilin' Thru (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), State Fair (Fox),'Henry the VIII (London Films-United Artists...
...Ninth Guest (Columbia). The luxurious penthouse in this picture is even more sinister than most attic apartments in the cinema. Upon their arrival the guests (a college president, an instructor whom he has discharged, a politician, a banker, a journalist and assorted women) cannot find their host. Presently a voice in the radio informs them that the doors are charged with death-dealing electricity, that there are cocktails in the kitchen and poison on the mantelpiece, that they will all be lucky to get out alive. The oldest woman present commits suicide when the radio denounces her as a social...
...leisure school. Purpose of this school was to show some 30.000 New Yorkers per day what to do with the spare time that was supposedly theirs under NRA codes of shorter hours and higher pay. The Advisory Board of Macy's show included President Butler of Columbia and Chancellor Chase of New York University. Presidents Dodds of Princeton and Angell of Yale sent solemn letters of endorsement...
...Columbia University, that yeasty pot of progressive ideas, President Roosevelt dipped such potent Brain Trusters as Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (see p. 55), Abraham S. Hewitt, Leo Wolman, Blackwell Smith. But Columbia was still left with a good supply of bright young professors who were disgruntled with the old order, passionately dedicated to the new. Last week many of them moved in a body to Cleveland, where the Progressive Education Association and the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence were convening. There they planted in the educational world the same kind of ideas which...
Kinetic, young Educational Psychologist Goodwin Watson of Columbia called on teachers and superintendents to unite for the new order in professional unions, the locals of which would be knotted together in a propaganda agency in Manhattan. Warned he: "We have a swell time here wording our dreams of c new society, but when it actually comes to putting them into action that is a different matter...