Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning, if we have not already turned, from the autumn offerings of the Hollywood general staff, we may cool our prematurely furrowed brown and indulge in one or two genuinely escapist, laughs at the presentation of "A Noun, La Liberte." Not even Lubitsch, whose sophistication is in the grand manner, has made anything half so gay. And for the intellectuals present there are implications, yes indeed...
...comparison with these, there are several from Mexico, the Grand Canyon and Jamaica, where he distinguishes great differences in the color of objects for a richer result...
Henry Hull is the same flawless actor he was in the stage version of "Grand Hotel." Every gesture is expressive, every look, significant. He is as much of a born actor, and arch rogue as John Barrymore. He carries off the part of the dilletante bachelor as well as Alfred Lunt were the uniform of the exiled Prince Rudolph Maximillian Von Hapsburg. But "Springtime for Henry" lacks the gay flavor and dramatic excitement that made "Reunion in Vienna" one of the most popular of the Guild offerings in the last two years...
Died. William Alden Smith. 73. long-time (1907-19) U. S. Senator from Michigan, millionaire owner of the Grand Rapids Herald; of a heart attack; in Grand Rapids. Mich...
Died. Dr. Julian Daniel ("Judy") Taylor. 86, Latin professor of Colby College (Waterville, Me.) for 59 years, officially titled "Grand Old Man of Maine" by Governor William Tudor Gardiner (TIME, Nov. 9, 1931); of a heart attack brought on by helping harvest apples; at Waterville. Me. Inheriting his wife's money, he shrewdly pyramided it. Last year he gave Colby $250,000 (contingent upon raising $2,750,000 more within three years) for the "New Campus for Old Colby...