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Playwright Sturges, no O. Henry, no Conrad, has ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters: the sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen Moore; wickedly beauteous Helen Vinson; the caddish son Clifford Jones. Like Producer Lasky, Colleen Moore was making a comeback too, hers after a four-year absence from films. She and Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last...
...other buildings in the Yard. The two swinging doors will be set in colonial arches of white wood, and besides the four big square windows and the door, there will be two round windows in each gable-end, at the front and back of the garage. This will heighten the Georgian effect...
...heighten the effect he tried to deny himself on the day of the performance to the world's sharpest newshawks-the cameramen of New York Harbor-by shutting himself up in his suite on the world-cruising Empress of Britain. After registering becoming reluctance he emerged at last, only to lose composure when one of the hawks shouted the old cry, "Tell the old fool to turn around!" Shaw, outraged, seized the cameraman and shook him by the shoulders. Meantime other cameras clickety-clicked, including that of the smart Daily News (tabloid) man who had perched above...
...doubt seemed to indicate that such an enlargement of the facilities of the College would be warranted. But is there any assurance that the number of applicants will continue to grow, or will even hold the ground gained last year over any length of time? The factors which heighten the popularity of a college in the minds of preparatory school students are not easy to determine. At Harvard the publicity attendant upon the institution of the House Plan, the superior financial position in time of depression, and the success of many of the athletic teams in recent years...
...wherein a large portion of the action takes place. The walls are made of veneer panelling, while the set itself is an accurate reproduction made from pictures obtained in London of an English courtroom. The aim in its construction is for realism; the purpose of which being to heighten the dramatic effect...