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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Welles plays Falstaff, and his characterization is always good and sometimes excellent Burgess Meredith has the part of Prince Hal, but he seems too boyish in his rendition and not at all gallivanting; furthermore his occasional lapses into a "toity-toid street" accent, ostensibly for lightness, does little credit to Shakespeare's blank verse. John Emery, as Hotspur, has great vitality, but often he palls in tearing his passions to tatters. Morris Ankrum as Henry IV gives a sterling performance throughout, and outstanding in the lighter vein are Gus Schilling, as Bardolph, and John Berry, as Poins...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

Made for Each Other was produced by David Oliver Selznick, directed by John Cromwell, written by Jo Swerling and acted, principally, by James Stewart and Carole Lombard. Which of these deserves most credit for the indisputable fact that this mundane, domestic chronicle has more dramatic impact than all the hurricanes, sandstorms and earthquakes manufactured in Hollywood last season is a mystery which does not demand solution. What does demand solution is why, when Hollywood can make pictures as sound as Made for Each Other, it practically never does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Granting the general decline in U. S. foreign trade, disrupting effects of war and exchange restrictions, boycotters nevertheless claim much credit for these whopping trade losses. That credit must be divided between 1) the uncoordinated efforts of millions of individual shoppers, and 2) the organized activity that stems chiefly from two groups: the Joint Boycott Council (of the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Labor Committee) and the American Boycott Against Aggressor Nations (onetime Committee for a Boycott Against Japanese Aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Give & Take | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...medieval age," said he, "had its wandering scholar. We have our itinerant or fleeting scholar. Hundreds of thousands of these itinerant students move from college to college, each armed with his letter of credit." Dr. Jessup found that collegiate hoboism, once thought of as a shiftless, spendthrift, boomtime phenomenon, had in the past few years reached appalling proportions. Although it is commonly supposed that the typical college student enters as a freshman and emerges from the same college with a diploma four years later, actually today most students transfer or drop out before commencement day. Only one-third receive degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fleeting Scholars | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...more pleased over the victory than Coach Jack Barnaby, for this is his first season as varsity coach. To him goes no small amount of credit for the win; his enthusiasm, ability and interest in every member of the squad was a vital factor in the constant improvement of the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Subdues Yale Squash Team In Spectacular Victory in Hemenway | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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