Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prestige,--as concerned with public relations as a Freshman on the Dean's List; perhaps the whole thing is a coincidence. At any rate, it is worth noting that of the three hold-overs in Boston currently running, only one is at a theatre incurably addicted to the practice. "Grand Illusion" at the Fine Arts is finishing its fifth, and 'its said final week; Jesse James, the rootin' tootin' gunman in technicolor, is shooting his way through a second week at the Met; and "Gunga Din," replete with a tribe of murderous Indian natives, is still at Keith...
Irving Dilliard, latest Nieman fellow to come to Harvard, considers his opportunity "a fine chance to come back to a grand place and learn more." Dilliard was a graduate student at Harvard in 1929 after being graduated from the University of Illinois...
Meantime, Federal District Judge Albert L. Reeves, a Republican, who beat Judge Southern to the 1936 election prosecutions, beat him again by giving a Federal grand jury evidence of income tax evasion by Kansas City mobsters. Judge Reeves asserted that one "big man" (Charles Carrolla), had charged $30,500 for protecting a "residential resort." Said Judge Reeves: "There is an enormous income from gambling in Kansas City and so far as I know, the Government realizes no income from that gambling...
...producer in England persuaded Bernard Shaw to sell picture rights to his plays. French producers have lately turned out genuinely original products like Le Roman d'un Tricheur and Grand Illusion. Hollywood, however, even when it was not deliberately repeating itself, repeated itself unconsciously. Gunga Din is an example of this unconscious repetition. Whatever there is to be said about the minor matter of barrack-room life in India has been more than sufficiently said by the cinema many times, most recently in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Charge of the Light Brigade and Drums...
...Hyler), one of the wonder boys of modern decoration. A onetime saxophone player who drifted from the University of Pennsylvania to Berlin, from Berlin to Paris, Hiler fell to painting in the '20's and became good so fast that Parisian night clubs like the Jungle, the Grand Duke, the Jockey and the Manitou would have nothing but Hiler decorations...