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...play is properly farcical, although Playwrights Edith Fitzgerald and Robert Riskin have occasionally blundered into trying to make it something more. Its progress is rendered exceedingly pleasant by Sylvia Sidney, who has long lashes and a figure, as the fraudulent heroine. Dorothy Sands is trig and smart as her young-seeming mother. When asked by a stranger if she knows her own daughter, she replies: "Certainly, we were girls together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...following Thursday, July 18, the camp was moved again, and this time was established at the end of the automobile road which leads from Jasper to the base of Mount Edith Cavell. At this point the characteristics of glaciers became the first interest of the students, and many hours were spent on the ice of Ghost Glacier. Ten members of the party left the Cavell camp Sunday afternoon and four and a half hours later had established a temporary camp above timber line on the west ridge of the mountain. From this point the summit of Mount Edith Cavell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Geology Group of Summer School Had an Eventful Time on Expedition in Canadian Rockies | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...Miss Abbott's elder sister, by two years, is Dean Edith Abbott of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Social Service Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Child Guidance Clinics | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...Marriage Playground (Paramount). What happens to children in families that have a penchant for divorces was the subject of a novel (The Children) by Edith Wharton which this picture reproduces faithfully. Mrs. Wharton's professional, knowingly maternal sympathy, her bookish characters, even the glossy feeling of her style, are in The Marriage Playground. It is handsomely staged, conscientiously acted, unreal, inane. Numerous precocious stage children do their specialties as Mary Brian, the oldest and best-looking of the family, gives them their cues. Silliest shot: the cocktail council on the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...play reminds you how absorbing ethical problems may be, even when they arise among such pastel make-believes as Mr. Milne's characters. And though his answers are questionable, Mr. Milne knows how to dramatize his questions. The moral excitements are excellently stirred by Henry Hull and Edith Barrett, while Harry Beresford's vignette of a London bobby is beyond praise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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