Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collegiate" is more than passing fair because of the dance routines of Betty Jane Cooper and her chorus and the comedy work of Lynn Overman. Penner is the rich angel for a charm school run by Jack Oakie, which teaches the girls how to dress, dance, and use cosmetics...
...painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton (Philip Merivale), a financier impeccable of manner and noble of mien, has a weak moment with a flashy actress. By midnight, however, the devil has been safely sent packing...
...tried to put it on the screen. One of the most beautiful stories has been considerably dulled by the attempt to transpose purely mental processes to a visible stage. The picture, however, is not as thoroughly unbearable as it could have been with unskilled directing and acting. While Gary Cooper reverts to the cowboy in a few scenes, he turns in a quite creditable performance as Peter, and Ann Harding is even better as the Duchess of Towers. It was a pleasant surprise to find Donald Meek taking the part of blind Mr. Slade so well. Gogo was played...
Last week California authorities were at sea concerning the legal aspects of Ann Cooper Hewitt's case. The State's 23-year-old sterilization law applies only to inmates of prisons and asylums. The legal adviser of the State Board of Medical Examiners was of the opinion that any parent may have a minor child sterilized, that the child's only recourse is to sue parent and physician within one year after attaining majority. Ann Hewitt's was the first such suit he knew of. At week's end an Assistant District Attorney...
...heritage which joined with that of Peter Cooper, Abram Hewitt and Peter Cooper Hewitt to produce her, Ann Cooper Hewitt last week made the following affidavit, which was promptly confirmed by oldtime San Franciscans: "While my mother has always boasted of her Southern aristocracy, she was the daughter . . . of a horsecar driver in San Francisco who lived in a flat over a corner grocery store when she was a girl...