Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holiday (Columbia) has had a career as noteworthy as any U. S. play in the last decade. Written by Philip Barry and produced on the Manhattan stage in 1928, it played to crowded houses throughout that pre-Depression season, set the style for a hundred-odd comedies of manners that followed it. Two years later, the first screen version, with Ann Harding, Mary Astorand the late Robert Ames in the leading roles, indicated amazingly that in talking pictures the cinema industry had found a medium which could rival the stage in its appeal to civilized, adult audiences...
...Theatre Owners Association, who claimed a month ago that her box-office appeal was practically nil. Highly responsive to the cajolings of pudgy, moon-faced Director Cukor, she gives her liveliest performance since appearing in his Little Women-Restoring Cinemactress Hepburn's prestige is not the only coup Columbia will score if Holiday proves a box-office hit for the third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current hit, The Awful Truth. As an adapter, Screenwriter Stewart...
...Peter G. R. Campbell 1G, Robert B. Pegram Jr., 1G, Walter B. Rideout, Colby College, Arthur J. Watzinger 1G. James Savage scholarship, David G. Williams, 1G, George William Sawin fellowship and University fellowship, Maurice B. Heins. Philip H. Sears scholarship, David Savan 1G. Shattuck scholaships to: William M. Doerflinger, Columbia. Paul E. Guenther 1G, Jesse F. King...
Thayer fellowships to: Paul L. Richard 3G, Willard A. Smith 1G. Thayer scholarships to: Sidney W. Benson, Columbia University John C. Greene, University of South Dakota. William S. Johnson 1G. Thomas R. Steadman 1G. Gorham Thomas scholarship, Herbert W. Crispin. Townsend scholarships to: Laurence L. Barber Jr. 1G, Bernard S. Lynn, Stanford University, Donald T. MacRae, Dunlap Observatory. John Tyndall scholarship, Henry Hurwitz Jr. Cornell University...
...West Coast and its orange blossom climate; Southern California amassed 47 1/2 points, almost double that of the runner-up, Michigan State. The University of California was third with 22 1/2, Pitt 20 1/2, Manhattan 15, Harvard 12, Princeton 10 1/2. N. Y. U. 10, Rhode Island 9, and Columbia...