Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be remembered by those failing to secure admission to a House now that a number of places will become available before September by changes in plans on the part of some of the men for whom rooms for 1936-37 are now reserved. Some of these men will not return to College for personal reasons, and those Freshmen who fail in June to receive promotion to the Sophomore class will not be eligible for the House...
...hand corner and the $5,700 just above it, but to a mere powder monkey it's a lot to save in two years. If some Punk tries to burn me up with "Hello, Sucker," I'll plum incinerate him with an equally original "Says You." I fail to see where anyone made a sucker...
...some social security, of their feeling of security. However it has been-while business has profited well under the New Deal and the President's steps have done little physical damage to anyone-somehow, since the summer of 1934 when Louis Howe's health began seriously to fail. Franklin Roosevelt has stirred up burning bitterness against himself that was quite unnecessary. Whether Louis Howe might have prevented needless antagonism no man will ever know, for, when the President got into bed after the Gridiron dinner, Louis Howe was gone forever...
...liked "The Country Doctor" even though it does turn into a baby show at the end. The audience cannot fail to be sympathetic with the portrayal of Doctor Dafoe given by Jean Hersholt and the supporting cast is excellent throughout. The quints have emerged from the process of mass production creditably and all do as well as the ordinary baby stars...
...Toes (words & music by George Abbott, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers ; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer) is an historic show. Like The Little Show (1929), Music in the Air (1932), As Thou sands Cheer (1933), it stands as a definite milestone in the U. S. musical theatre. Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded. Such was the appraisal of the most gilded first-night audience of the 1935-36 theatrical season - a collection ranging from handsome Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald to Hoofer Eleanor Powell-which roared in astonishment...