Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a whiff of Lucius Beebe just to make it all authentic, Hollywood has produced its latest treatise on New York night life. "Cafe Society," now playing at the Metropolitan, is a gospel on the beauties of the sweet-and-simple life, ranting against the Futility of Society. But Madeleine Carroll, as the slightly pixilated cafesse, succeeds in making herself so delightful, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless newspaper hack, is so colorless, that everyone leaves the picture convinced that Success is Society and Society is Heaven. If the audience is willing to discount the film's moralizing...
...would obviously be necessary--for transfers, alterations, and equipment--the total cost should not be prohibitive; and possibly the French and Italian governments would be willing to contribute. In the end, such integration of Latin cultures would broaden their appeal and inject into their study a measure of new life. If so, there would seem to be little justification for leaving Romance culture out in the rain, especially when a roof can so easily be provided...
...American humor is steadily moving towards French wit," said Andre Maurois, distinguished French author and scholar, in an interview last night. "It is the influence of city life on American authors that is bringing this change, most evident in the humor of such typical publications as "The New Yorker," he continued...
When the well-known depicter of New England farm life gave a reading at Harvard last fall under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, such a large audience attempted to crowd into Emerson D that the reading had to be shifted to the New Lecture Hall...
...Busy Life...