Word: heartbreaking
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Said she: "Isn't it lovely?" New Jersey's former Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who last year dropped a slander suit against onetime Radio Commentator Boake Carter, began a 52-week series of news broadcasts himself. Excerpt from his first broadcast: "Happiness and heartbreak, achievement and failure . . . are wrapped up in that thing, chiefly transient, which we call news...
...Freuchen decided to send him to Greenland for good. But although Mequsaq could not learn white men's ways, neither could he learn to be happy away from his father, who knew, each time they parted, that Mequsaq, for all his poker-faced Eskimo reticence, suffered the special heartbreak of an orphan and an exile...
...Rocks (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by the Federal Theatre). "Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks." Taking this gloomy pronouncement by Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House as his text, Author Shaw wrote On the Rocks to while away the tedium of his world tour in 1933. Last week, its belated cut-price U. S. premiere brilliantly rounded out the Federal Theatre's season...
...months before opening its revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, management of New York's Mercury Theatre wrote to Playwright Shaw to ask what royalties he wanted. Surprised to get no reply, the Mercury cabled Playwright Shaw, finally extracted his assurance that his terms "would not be too unreasonable'' (TIME, May 8). Last week, when Heartbreak House, after running for six weeks, was about to close, the Mercury Theatre finally got Playwright Shaw's terms and his excuse for the delay...
...drama, but always with a paucity of heroics, a leavening of lightness and brightness. Fashioned from the Sidney Howard-Paul de Kruif play of 1934. Edward Chodorov's cinema is firmly rooted in facts. It records, against a back-ground of Army life in Cuba, the defeat and heartbreak experienced in 1900 by General Leonard Wood (Jonathan Hale), Major William Crawford Gorgas (Henry O'Neill) and the commission headed by Major Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) in their long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones about pointing out that the eventually accepted solution, i.e., that...