Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought she married. For 15 years she had been the wife of an obscure civil servant who seemed as pleased as she was with their three children, a tasteful circle of friends as decently well off as themselves. Suddenly, after Alec's and Johnnie Graham's amateur operetta had made a sensation, she found herself a back number entertaining mobs of Alec's "Yahoo" theatrical acquaintances. He began living in a "genial, gregarious, alcoholic mist" and now declared that their old friends had always bored...
...Crimson medley team composed of Graham Cummin, Jameson, and Hutter will swim on the final day, while Harley, Stowell and Frank Coleman will participate in the gruelling 500 yard swim...
...first of the palms for acting is probably won by John M. Graham, '38, president of the club, and picaresque heroine of the current show. He gives us Miss Mae La Verne, who is pretty well described by her first name, and he captures all the seductive coarseness that his playwright colleagues have put into the part. Arnett McKennan, '37, as Gloria Mundi (And some of the best touches are to be found in the names.) makes a wholly satisfactory simple-minded, love-tossed heroine. In general, where the show is not brilliant it is still consistently diverting, and should...
History Is Made At Night (United Artists) is not historical, only faintly nocturnal. It is a gusty romantic divertissement hand-tailored by Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker to fit the talents of its three principal players, Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur and Leo Carrillo. Its purpose is entertainment and it achieves its end. Its importance, cinematically, is due largely to a shipwreck sequence which takes rank with the famed earthquake in San Francisco...
Only unexpected happening of the program was the fact that John M. Graham '38, in sending regards to his "Brooklyn friends, Hyman and Dolores," added the name of Pudding piano player "Zimmy...