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One of the most consistent and positive policies of this department for the last four or five years has been an implacable loathing for a Hollywood cutie named Robert Taylor. We have advocated impeachment, abdication, excommunication, even complete abolition. But the time has come for the bugle to call retreat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

H. Stuart Kirby '43 of Rye, New York, and Weld Hall concocted the supreme publicity stunt of the year, involving the delightful combination of a "Ship-wreck Kelly" act high up on one of the trees in the Yard with a Radcliffe glamor girl waiting below, but all his well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE BEAUTY THWARTS YARDLING'S PUBLICITY STUNT | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

As soon as he had a chance, George Augustus' bored father, George I, fled from England to his beloved Hanover for a long vacation. Prince George Augustus and lively Caroline proceeded to ingratiate themselves with the English at cheerful Hampton Court, surrounded by learned English divines and delightful English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quennell's Queen | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Perhaps it is the novelty alone which raises this picture high above the usual type of film which Americans have seen pour out of the sunny colony on the Pacific coast, for it has a delightful lightness and freshness which Hollywood seems rarely able to attain.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Poetry: T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" helps us to remember that Mr. Eliot used to exercise a considerable gift for writing light verse. His cats are delightful, and the book is in every way pleasing. His "Family Reunion," published last Spring created the nearest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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