Word: delmars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apiece of a serial story, they solved Paramount's problem of finding a second story with which to follow the symposium-picture, If I Had a Million. The Woman Accused has compromising situations by Ursula Parrott, faux pas by Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll) who, to spare the feelings of the man she loves (Gary Grant), has to murder...
...Vincent is curious about somebody else's chassis he may order one bent and twisted until he knows its points as well as if he had designed it. Just as inquisitive, just as skeptical, are the Industry's other engineers, including such men as Studebaker's Delmar ("Barney") Roos, Hupmobile's Frank E. Watts, Reo's Horace T. Thomas, Auburn's Herbert Snow (formerly with Winton Co.), Hudson's S. G. Baits, Franklin's E. S. Marks (designer of the improved air-cooled motor), Nash's N. E. Wahlberg...
Discussing the problems of the Freshmen in the future, Delmar Leighten '19, dean of Freshmen in a supplement to the report says...
Uptown New York was written by Vina Delmar with dangerous recklessness as to motivation but with a good eye for local color. The hero and heroine meet each other in a ladies' room-which, as the cinema becomes less pastoral, is growing in popularity as a romantic setting-but thereafter the story manages to keep closer to the kitchen than the bathroom. Good sequence: Eddie taking his girl to a wrestling match, proposing to her during a flying mare. Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Poor old Wallace Beery does not have a very happy time in the Cinema...
...Delmar Leighton '19, dean of Freshmen, Assistant Deans W. J. Bender '27 and Henry Chauncey '28, Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, Matthew Luce '91, Regent of the University, and the head proctors will dine with the Freshmen...