Word: credited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wholesome stupidity and naive sensuality of Africa and the futile artifice of Europe with its snobbishness, adultery, and puerile attempts to understand eternal secrets. The skillful direction of Edmond Greville and a finished performance by the veteran Albert Prejean put this across. M. Benoit, at the cameras, deserves great credit, as much for shots of delicate irony as for scencs of beauty and simplicity. English subtitles make this rare film available to everyone...
...Crimson Playgoer hopes he has not lost all his credit by praising "There's Always a Breeze," which he thought was funny, but which was apparently not funny, because it would be too bad if no one were to take any stock in the praise about to be lavished on Roland Young in Clare Kummer's new comedy, "Spring Thaw." The theme of this play is certainly no startling innovation: it is a recitation of the difficulties encountered by a middle-aged man trying to retain possession of both his giddy young wife and his wits. Nor is the dialogue...
...week wrote RFC Chairman Jesse Jones to inform the nation's banks that RFC's 32 offices (with about $1,500,000,000 in the kitty) are once more open for business. The riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington last month called loudest for increased credit facilities. Last week Jesse Jones revealed that the day after Franklin Roosevelt untied RFC's purse strings, it received loan applications from 200 small businessmen. RFC now welcomes such applications no matter how small...
Chairman Avery plastered President Roosevelt with plenty of blame for the new amendments to the Housing Act, however. Predicting that the easy credit it provides to would-be builders will not produce any housing boom, Chairman Avery dubbed the Administration's approach "superficial" in regarding building as a distinct industry. Said he, "Easy credit will not be an inducement to build homes which when built will not be worth what they cost." According to Sewell Avery, building represents a wide cross section of all U. S. industry and therefore will not revive until business as a whole regains confidence...
True to all predictions of sports observers Captain Johnnie Harkness came home not only with the Eastern intercollegiate championship to his credit in the 175-pound class but also with the coveted Coaches' Trophy for the best wrestler in the meet...