Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opener, is on the grand scale with a nicely turned bit of satire and Mary Boland leading a well rounded cast. "Porgy and Bess," with George Gershwin's excellent score is a modern operatic version of Heyward's striking negro story and a good thing for the more serious. Earl Carroll's "Sketch Book" appeals in Carroll fashion to the more elemental instincts...
...Chief." Robert Earl Clements was born 40 years ago in Amarillo Tex., son of a rich cattleman. After high school in Fort Worth, he migrated to Long Beach Calif, set up in the real estate business, prospered. His fortune reached a peak of $750,000 in 1929, slumped with Depression. Realtor Clements was not much impressed when one of his salesmen, an ineffectual old man who had been a Long Beach health officer, began talking to him about a plan to banish depressions for good. But after a while he took interest spent a few weeks brushing up on economics...
...above the Connecticut River upon the plains of Hanover, N. H. Head Coach Earl Blaik, a sandy-haired, thin-lipped mentor with a wealth of experience as backfield coach at Army, has been hard at work in turning out the second Big Green gridiron machine trained under his tutelage. And the work of Coach Blaik will be evident this afternoon when the Dartmouths take the field in their first major test of the season...
...Knows What Kings?" John Buchan's useful mission is to redeem the Governor-Generalship from the slough of Canadian distaste into which it sank under his predecessor, the Earl of Bessborough. If Canadians are to go on paying $43,799 a year to an official from overseas whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact...
...problem of what to say about Pirate Drew may have bothered them in advance but the Methodists carried through admirably. At Drew's weedy grave in Drew's neglected private cemetery, Drewsclift, to which some 75 pious people made pilgrimage last fortnight, Rev. Earl S. Scott of the Drew Church took the line that "he lived in a different way than ours," that "some of his money was nobly used." Dr. Philip S. Walters, onetime president of Drew University alumni, praised Drew's philanthropies but went so far as to say: "I would...