Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting at the Metropolitan Theatre on Friday is an adaptation of the stage success, "Death Takes a Holiday...
...Death Takes A Holiday", adapted for the screen by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman from the famous stage play by Alberto Casella, and presents Frederic March, as a "shadow", Death. For three days, Death takes a holiday from his grim task to task life as a human being, and discover, if he can, what makes life so sweet, and himself, Death, so abhorrent. March, in the disguise of a handsome, adventurous gentleman, appears at a house party and throws himself into the circle of the sophisticated group. To each of the beautiful young women present, March makes love in turn...
...sleeves and struck back at the popular charge that its inventions and labor-saving devices were largely responsible for Depression. Millions of jobless felt that, somehow, they would be at work today if Science had not replaced them with machines. Wiser men discussed the possibility of a research holiday, to give economics a chance to catch up with Science. "Science and engineering will destroy themselves and the civilization of which they are a part unless there is built up a consciousness which is real and definite in meeting social problems." Secretary of Agriculture Wallace had cried at assembled American Association...
...Lombard, Ill. to run errands for First National at $4 a week. The year "Ned" Brown graduated from Harvard Law, John Oleson was proudly wearing the title "loaning officer." Vice President since 1916, he directed the investment of bank funds, was able to accumulate sufficient cash before the bank holiday to meet withdrawals of 20% of the bank's deposits without outside help. Now 60, he succeeds Frederick Holbrook Rawson who re tired as chairman last August because of ill health. To fill the vacancies left by Messrs. Brown and Oleson, First National elevated two department vice presidents...
Death Takes a Holiday (Paramount). The hero (Fredric March) of this fantasy makes his first appearance as a garden variety of hobgoblin. A translucent shadow with bad manners and a bass voice, he calls on Duke Lambert de Catolica. announces that he is "the point of contact between life and immortality'' and suggests that he join the Duke's house party for a few days, in disguise. When he reappears, Death is wearing the monocle and white breeches of a minor Mediterranean prince. He amuses himself more than the Duke's other guests with macabre little...