Word: holt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the role offered by Sardis Lawrence, who brought out all the irony, all the spirit, and all the easy-going-live-and-let-live character of Madge's aged and indigent composer-father: the top performance of the evening. Another competent oldster was Frank Thomas as T. Rogers Holt--up from below, the "survival of the unfittest," as father Graham puts...
...meaning which the play may carry is to be found in the line spoken by Ann Holt, bored daughter of the nouveauriche T. Roger Holt: "Damn a social system which produces rich fathers, smug mothers, droopy sons, and finished daughters." This of course is pretty sweeping; the Country Club set should feel thoroughly chagrined. But then the affair wanders back into comedy pure and romantic in fact these often charming and often rather bewildering oscillations between comedy and comment set the tone of "Life's a Villain." In the long run it's the plot that counts. The author...
Vivian Taylor, who is fresh from Vassar or somewhere and uses her knowledge as something to throw bitterness at, is given a convincing portrayal as a young neurotic by Evelyn Dorn, once you've tumbled to the fact she's meant to be neurotic, and not just sophisticated. Ann Holt as the wealthy daughter, who might have been fresh from Vassar but has really just been disgorged by a finishing school, is well handled by Louise Kirtland, a beauty with a figure. The male juveniles are not so good...
GARI-GARI -Hugo Adolf Bernatzik -Holt...
...Henry Holt & Co., not TIME, has already decided to issue a compact annual world history to be written by Alvin C. Eurich & Elmo C. Wilson, compilers of TIME'S semi-annual current events test. First volume, 1936, will be available in February...