Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leigh fan, has seen it twice.) John Gielgud has revived Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which is a smash, plans to revive Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love, soon. Emlyn Williams will revive Turgenev's A Month in the Country, and Fay Compton opens this week in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes...
News that Tolstoy's War and Peace was to be filmed drew cries of anxious alarm from such Britons as H. G. Wells, Compton Mackenzie, Eric Linklater, and produced in the London Times a letter: "With dismay we have heard that it is to be made into a cinematograph film. . . We would ask what degree of supervision, and by whom, is to be exercised. . . ." Promptly came the answer from Sir Alexander Korda, who snickered and rumbled in rich Magyarish English: "This Victorian phrase, 'with dismay' and 'cinematograph film' just slays me. You would think...
Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch, Harvard President James B. Conant and M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton in 37 days had gone to the bottom of the rubber mess to get the ugly facts of wartime life...
...shortage. He might be persuaded to soft-pedal all that, but he would state flatly that the situation is now so critical that all pleasure driving should be eliminated and automobiles used only for essential business. He and his brainy colleagues, James Bryant Conant and Karl Taylor Compton, had also looked at the synthetic-rubber program finally gotten under way by WPB (TIME, July 20) and found it good. He was expected to recommend...
Broad-shouldered, athletic Karl Compton, 54, whose M.I.T. is just below Harvard on Boston's Charles River, has spent much time in Washington doing odd chores for Franklin Roosevelt. An able physicist, he has urged that scientists be given a greater part...