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...characters are most forceful when they speak the salty idiom of the street, least effective when he hoists them on flights of unnatural rhetoric. Most idiomatic performers in Golden Boy were: Robert Lewis, as the flat-voiced, grasping fight promoter, Roman Bohnen, a typical shoestring manager, and Jules Garfield, recruited from the lead of Having Wonderful Time, as a wisecracking taxi driver. Despite the handicap of an unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Vassar, Vermont, Dartmouth, Norfolk Prison Colony, and Melbourne University debates. These men will be picked from the following members of the Council: Rendigs Fels '39, Donald McDonald '39, Jay Kaufman '38, Lawrence Ebb '39, Paul Cherington '40, Stanley Kapner '40, John Weston '38, Ralph Harris '39, Robert Grubbs '39, Garfield Horn '40, Raymond Harris '40, Stanley W. Hertzfeld '39, Henry Wyner '39, Robert Clemonts '40, Robert Beck '39, H. M. Shooshan '39, George F. Fox '38, Jose DeVaron '38, Howard J. Snyder '39, and Malcolm Wilkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS ARE CHOSEN FOR COMING MATCHES | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

...four volume set of the Colonial History of New York. But the substance of the letter was Lord Macaulay's Whiggish reflections on Randall's biography of Thomas Jefferson and on the political future of the U. S. This letter stirred in Republican James Abram Garfield so much resentment that 21 years later he flayed it from the stump during a Congressional campaign.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt, like Garfield before him, chose Macaulay's letter as a good butt for political rebuttal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Macaulay at Roanoke | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Flanked in later days by a line of resorts including Asbury Park and Bradley Beach, both developed by astute Mr. Bradley, Ocean Grove acquired in 1876 a big auditorium in which spoke not only religious leaders but Presidents of the U. S.-Grant, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson. Last week, when it reached the height of its most successful season since 1929, Ocean Grove was still a predominantly Methodist theopolis, one of a few communities left in the U. S. which are run on a strictly godly basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seaside Theopolis | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Exact opposite of most presidents who quarrel with their trustees, hard-fisted Tyler Dennett claimed they were wasting money. When Alumnus Dennett ('04) went back to Williams three years ago from a professorship at Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs to succeed President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th President of the U. S., he was shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dennett Out | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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