Word: dorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedom Ring, etc.), he forswore 15 months' salary to write it. (His movie salary is around $6,000 a week.) But for Hecht it was "fun writing what I want-without having Sam Goldwyn peering over my shoulder." Fun for Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with dead-pan vehemence, a sort of Ouija-board mysticism, a little sour cream of human kindness-all with a suggestion of having been written by a slightly phoney, Dostoievskian pixy...
Back in Inglewood, Calif. Cortlandt Hill had a pair of plywood passenger cars which resembled ordinary units of a streamlined duralumin train, but which were mounted on their running gear in a manner which he and several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each...
...less ambitious feat of imagination, Playwright Anderson has given High Tor a young owner named Van Dorn (Burgess Meredith, who also lives within a couple of rifle shots of the hill). "Van's" problem is to keep High Tor, which a traprock company is eager to buy and gut, and at the same time keep his sweetheart Judy (Phyllis Welch), who thinks he ought to quit living in a cabin, make some money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft...
Vivian Taylor, who is fresh from Vassar or somewhere and uses her knowledge as something to throw bitterness at, is given a convincing portrayal as a young neurotic by Evelyn Dorn, once you've tumbled to the fact she's meant to be neurotic, and not just sophisticated. Ann Holt as the wealthy daughter, who might have been fresh from Vassar but has really just been disgorged by a finishing school, is well handled by Louise Kirtland, a beauty with a figure. The male juveniles are not so good...
...Cheyney, of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor Ernest Nelson; Professor Wilhelm Pauck of the University of Chicago; Reverend Mr. R. H. Lord '06, assistant professor of Government; C. J. Friedrick; Miss Violet Barbour, of Vassar; Professor L. B. Packard '09, of Amherst; Professor Penfield Roberts '16; Professor Walter Dorn; Professor Leo Gershoy; C. C. Brinton '19, assistant professor of History; Professor Guy Stanton Ford; Professor Fredrick Artz; Professor W. L. Langer '15; Professor Robert Binkley; Professor Carleton Hayes, of Columbia University; Professor S. B. Fay '06; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale; and Professor William Lingelbach. An additional volume...