Word: craig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Craig's Wife (Columbia). Consideration for the Hays office on one hand and the feelings of its own patrons on the other combine to make the cinema's view of matrimony at most times a highly sympathetic one. Consequently the current cinema season may well be remembered for the way in which two first-class pictures have revealed two rich and respectable U. S. wives as altogether worthless characters. Dodsworth (TIME. Sept. 28) showed one who lost her husband by trying to remold him in her own pattern of a social climber. Craig's Wife, adapted from...
...Harriet Craig (Rosalind Russell), Walter Craig (John Boles), is simply a means to an end - having a house of her own which, spotlessly neat, secure against all intrusions, symbolizes perfectly her own empty meanness. Craig submits peacefully when forbidden to smoke in doors, entertain his friends or go out for an evening of poker. He even smiles indulgently when Mrs. Craig runs his aunt out of the house, insults a friendly grand mother who lives next door and drives the servants into giving notice. It is a long worm which has no turning. Walter Craig's rebellion starts when...
...CRAIG THORN Hudson...
...furniture to accentuate her outbursts, lowering her voice to a sepulchral baritone, leaning backward at an angle of 30° while combing her hair, ordering a midnight supper of two pork chops, Julienne potatoes, buttermilk, salted peanuts. Written seven years ago by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Craig's Wife and The Show-Off, Reflected Glory at least has the distinction of being Tallulah Bankhead's most creditable vehicle since her repatriation five years...
...other debaters here were A. Gilman Sullivan '36 and Thomas W. Healy '38. For Princeton the speakers were Willis Snyder, Schuyler Crane, and Gordon Craig. Harvard speakers at Yale were W. Tucker Dean '37, Richard W. Sullivan '38, and Irving Murray...