Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caller at the Manhattan office of Director D. T. Pierce of Consolidated Oil Corp. last week was Harvey C. Fremming, president of C. I. O.'s International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers. Laborman Fremming was not delivering an ultimatum to Harry Ford Sinclair's big company. Even if Mr. Fremming had a labor case against Consolidated, he would not go in for ultimatums. A husky, one-time footballer from the University of Washington, Laborman Fremming steps softly until he is sure of his ground. After C. I. O. announced its drive for a million...
...James B. Conant, Mrs. Leslie B. Cutler, Mrs. Robert H. Fernald, Mrs. Edward W. Forbes, Mrs. Vinton Freedley, Mrs. Theodore Frothingham, Jr., Mrs. W. Perrin Fuller, Mrs. David H. Fulton, Mrs. William T. Gardiner, Mrs. John W. Hallowell, Mrs. A. Chester Hanford, Mrs. Thomas J. Healey, Mrs. F. Harvey Hilton, Mrs. Amor Hollingsworth, Mrs. James M. Hunnewell, Mrs. James L. Huntington, Mrs. Shaun Kelly, Mrs. Delmar Leighton...
...grand return to the screen for Spencer Tracy, who makes Manuel a far greater figure than he was in the book, while Freddy Bartholomew as Harvey is far above his "Lloyds of London' performance. Between them they have created the most deeply emotional characters of the year. There is almost no one in the theatre who isn't moved by the death of Manuel, or by the service in Gloucester for those lost...
...action follows the book very closely; there is a longer introduction before you actually get out on the water, for it takes Hollywood longer than it took Kipling to create the character of rich, spoiled Harvey; but from then on it is all Kipling and the characters portray the gripping tale with the greatest acting you are likely to see on the screen this year--Harvey, Manuel, Captain Disko (Lionel Barrymore), Long Jack. Perhaps the only sour note is the millionaire, Harvey's soupy father, played by Melvyn Douglas; it is doubtful if he is just what Kipling meant...
...above everything else it is a picture of the sea, of the fishermen who derive their livelihood from it and go down to their death in it. It is the picture of what the sea can do to a person, portrayed in the remarkable transformation of Harvey Cheyne. It tells of life as it really is in a way that has never been told before...