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Reunion in Vienna. Having met with but middling success with his second and third plays, Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood has gone back to the romance-versus-commonsense theme which he used to considerable success in his first work, The Road to Rome. Laid in Alt Wien, this play has to do with the ex-mistress (Lynn Fontanne) of a gaudy, deposed Habsburg (Alfred Lunt, her husband). After the revolution Actress Fontanne had married an eminent psychoanalyst, tried to forget her royal lover. On the 100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef's birth, however, a reunion of dowdy royalty takes...
...Zeppelins and searchlights. The soldier sets off for the front. The girl, by lighting a cigaret, has herself destroyed by a bomb. Director James Whale, who made a fine picture of Journey's End, was faced by a harder job in Waterloo Bridge. The stage play by Robert Emmet Sherwood lent itself superbly to the manufacture of a third-rate cinematic tearjerker. Director Whale, perceiving that its sentimentalities would be more effective if they were subdued, disguised them carefully and was terse in scenes which might have been heavily dramatic. Director Whale is sup posed to be the quietest...
...four-milo distance, in 1927, will again oppose Tappan, Yale stroke in 1928 and 1930, in each of which years he led his eight to victory over the Crimson. The Harvard boating is as follows: Stroke, Watts; 7, Oliver Amos '27; 6, F. A. Clark '29; 5, W. T. Emmet '29; 4, James Lawrence '29; 3, L. W. Dickey '30; 2, Kenneth Walker '27; Bow, Frederie Winthrop...
Freshmen--No. 1, S. E. Davenport; No. 2, G. H. Hartford; No. 3, W. K. Porter; No. 4, Lawrence Freeburn; No. 5, W. S. Emmet: No. 6, Robert Grant...
Once a famed comic artist, Funnyman Anthony joined the staff of Judge in 1920, became editor two years later. In 1929 Life hired him away, to succeed its outgoing Editor Robert Emmet Sherwood. Again?so his story runs?he ran afoul of the sensibilities of advertisers and, exactly one year ago, was dismissed. Now he is suing Life's President Clair Maxwell, alleging violation of a verbal five-year contract...