Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expense of the man himself. Great eulogies and great debunkings have been poured over his faded memory, rearing him into some abstract, semi-divine legend. In the play, "Abo Lincoln in Illinois," two men--Robert Sherwood, playwright, and Raymond Massey, actor--have striven to bring him back to life...
Whether their interpretation is accurate or not, no one can really tell, but anyone who has seen the play can readily tell that they have brought a vivid personality to life. Mystic, tragic, almost pathetic, their Lincoln is haunted by a trauma of youth, heckled by a shrewish wife, driven into the White House almost against his will, yet ostensibly he is just a backwoods politician with canny horse-sense and a flair for fence-sitting. None of the rampant idealism usually attributed to Lincoln colors the Sherwood-Massey characterization, and for that reason the play might be considered derogatory...
...Administration decides to appoint more associate professors where they are most badly needed, it must nor rule out the ten men who were given their walking-papers last June. Some have already taken positions elsewhere; some may still prove unworthy of a life-long job on the Faculty. But some of them may yet be restored, and with them a measure of inspiration and competence that Harvard must not lose...
...Last Panay Life-Boat...
...laurels of the present production of "Out-ward Bound" go to Laurette Taylor and Florence Reed. Of course Sutton Vane's plot gives them ample substance with which to work, but they give it life. It is encouraging to see two actresses, with storehouses of experience behind them, land parts that give them a chance to hit the boards with some real acting, not just sideline mugging. They both make the best of their opportunities, especially Miss Taylor, whose char-woman was one of the best, if not the best, performance of last year's Broadway season...