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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Princetonian knows in some form or other the story of Joe Gish, a student invented by a group of the Class of 1905 whose creators kept him alive for nearly four years by enrolling for extra courses under his name until five of them accidentally signed chapel cards for him the same day.* In one of his stories Princeton's Author F. Scott Fitzgerald changed Joe Gish into an ape. Last week it was revealed that all this spring a band of prankish seniors at Iowa State College (Ames) had actually persuaded their psychology, botany and chemistry instructors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cuthbert Gleep | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Several weeks ago at a White House press conference, newshawks brought up the subject of Premier van Zeeland and his visit to the U. S. President Roosevelt exhibited an expression of bewildered innocence that would have done credit to Lillian Gish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Educational Is the Word | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...film includes among its large cast such once well known screen figures as Lillian Gish, Monte Blue, Lillian Langdon, Eric von Stroheim, and Constance Talmadge, while Douglas Fairbanks and Colleen Moore appear as extras...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Film Society Will Show 1916 Griffith Cinema | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

Griffith's "The New York Hat", produced in 1912 and numbering such immortals as Mary Pickford, Lional Barrymore and Lillian Gish in its cast, will be the first film shown. Ince's. "The Fugitive", a ruthlessly tragic drama that ushered in the peculiar "Western" era, follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Society Will Present Historical Pictures Tonight | 2/9/1937 | See Source »

...Lillian Gish (defending New Deal spending): What does it matter so much that from the facts-and-figures point of view the balance sheet of life is in the black if one's soul as a result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Famous Last Words | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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