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...Human Problems of Administration," as its title indicates, deals with the problems of handling human beings which are important in administration. It involves a study of group psychology and problems which arise in handling groups of men. Here the men will delve into the whole gamut of questions which arise when people work together--grievances and their settlement, handling of irascible foremen, quarrels among workers...
...patriarch George Brent. There is a secret marriage and a hidden child, and a few heart-rending scenes of mother love add an unconvincing emotional element before the anticipated end. All this is only too familiar to the steady moviegoer, who has probably seen Stanwyck run this stereotyped emotional gamut before. And in her case practice doesn't seem to make perfect...
...post-war years Laval was variously a Socialist, Communist (for a few days), and numerous shades of rightist. Running this gamut he became a past master of French political intrigue, served as Foreign Minister and in other posts with several Cabinets. He also began to make big money as a corporation lawyer and super-fixer. Said he: "I don't like to work amongst files and documents. Give me the human element...
...permanent clipping. De Mille, almost singlehanded, bludgeoned the industry into big business, into a new knowledge of production values, and into an acceptance of stagecraft (genuine sets, etc.) -an important advance. He did this by dishing out a series of pretentious pictures which ran an enticing gamut from sex (Male and Female) and high living (Affairs of Anatol) to orgiastic uplift (The Ten Commandments). They earned him the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a gold medal from the bathtub industry (for making cinemagoers bathroom-conscious...
...business of running the submarine gamut was full of terrible danger. From the hospital at Coco Solo Naval Base in the Canal Zone last week came one of the grisliest tales of the war. It was told by a haggard, wan-eyed, bearded sailor, who looked like a man of 50. He was a mess boy named Robert Emmett Kelly, aged 17, sole survivor of a middle-sized tanker that a pig boat potted somewhere in the Caribbean...