Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They Knew What They Wanted (by Sidney Howard; produced by Leonard Sillman) is the Pulitzer Prize play that made the late Sidney Howard famous. After 15 years it seems (like rooms and houses not seen since childhood) much smaller than memory suggested. It still has fresh and human qualities and a wise moral, but clearly it was the brilliant acting of Pauline Lord, Richard Bennett and Glenn Anders that gave it its original gloss...
Down-to-earth is Playwright Howard's tale of an elderly Italian winegrower in the Napa Valley who courts a San Francisco waitress by mail, palming off his handsome young foreman's photograph as his own; of the girl's disillusionment on seeing him, her going through with the marriage, her transgression with the foreman. It is a triangle story solved by arithmetic, not geometry. The girl most wants a home, the old man a wife, the young man his freedom. So Playwright Howard, without cynicism, urges his bewildered people to be sensible, and quietly laughs melodrama...
Though Cinemactress Bergman is ballyhooed as something producers dream of-a star who can really play the piano-in Intermezzo neither she nor Leslie Howard plays a note. Anita's pianoises are made offset for her by Norma Boleslawski, wife of late, great Director Richard Boleslawski. Famed Violinist Toscha Seidel plays second fiddle for Leslie Howard...
Though he fiddles away most of his time on tour, world-famous Violinist Holger (Leslie Howard) is just a homebody at heart until he meets Anita (Ingrid Bergman), who is giving piano lessons to Holger's eight-year-old daughter (Ann Todd). Holger hears Anita play, falls in love with her. When he goes on tour again, Anita accompanies him, not only on the piano. But when Holger begins to long for home and daughter, Anita, realizing what the score is, runs off to Paris to study. As his daughter dashes across the street to greet homing Holger...
President Conant's revitalized American Civilization Plan was launched last night with a talk in Leverett House on "Americanism" by Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, while simultaneously the Freshmen held a round-table discussion on "Causes of the American Revolution" at the Union...