Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With "Ebb Tide" and "Double Wedding" the University currently presents a perfectly balanced program. In the former, ostensibly a Technicolored South Sea melodrama, Hollywood makes excursion into the realm of the tortured mind. The latter comprises an easy to take William Powell and Myrna Loy combination of slapstick and witty dialogue...
Taking the negative, the Harvard debaters, Lawrence F. Ebb '89 and Phil C. Neal '40, claimed that compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes was undemocratic, costly, and unacceptable to labor, as the telegrams from Lewis and Green demonstrated...
...Crimson team composed of Lawrence F. Ebb '39 and Phil C. Neal '40 will face the visitors in an encounter, which will be broadcast over radio station WNAC at 3 o'clock. The topic will be on the adoption of Australia's system of labor arbitration for the United States...
...film, credit goes to Navy-minded Director Lloyd Bacon, son of the late Actor Frank Bacon (Lightnin'). Director Bacon joined the Navy at the start of the World War, was commissioned as a photographic expert, now holds the rank of lieutenant-commander (reserve), spends vacations on navy cruises. Ebb Tide (Paramount). The tall tale, originally told by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, of the adventures of three beachcombers in a stolen schooner never bore up very well under literary scrutiny. But in the kindlier glow of cinema Technicolor, Ebb Tide's whoppers become leisurely implausibilities...
...brings his role under the control that distinguished his work in British films (Rhodes, A Woman Alone). Pug-faced, whimsical Barry Fitzgerald, Hollywood recruit from Ireland's Abbey Players, mugs too, but mugging, reckless shadow boxing and a cinemaddiction to strong drink are the Fitzgerald stock in trade. Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer). "As long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel...