Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Lawrence almost 66 years ago, George was trained as a mechanic. His literary talent, which became apparent early in life, was inherited from his father, George Russell Jackson, Boston newspaperman and author. A widower, Mr. Jackson will move to the home of a niece in Melrose...
...most valuable aspect of this field will probably be its influence on men who plan to go into business or public life. Architectural Science will, Dean Hudnut hopes, teach the importance of city planning, organization of public spaces, and all other expedients which will alleviate the deplorable conditions existing today. The very fact that the field will not take regional planning or housing in their technical contexts but only in their broadest implications increases its value...
...Miss Cowl is not the whole show by any means. Percy Waram is grand as the stingy and irascible Vanergelder, known to his subordinates as the "wolf trap". Tom Ewell, in the role of Cornelius Hackl who is getting away from it all for the first time in his life at the age of 33, is corking. June Walker, staunch old trooper, turns in an adequate performance and John Call, Joseph Sweeney, Bartlett Robinson (who looks startlingly like a Bennington drama boy), and Nydia Westman are all excellent in minor roles...
...Sixty Families created so much dissension that the club decided to quit talking about books on current subjects. To avoid such regrettable incidents the conservative Portland Study Club chooses titles with great care, likes Pearl Buck's novels or such works as Bertita Harding's life of Franz Joseph of Austria, Golden Fleece, which Mrs. R. Roy Palmer reviewed last month...
...pretty swell; and even if you should drop in all by yourself, you'll rediscover that Myrna Loy is just your style, although maybe she's a wee bit too perfect. From the safety of the balcony, you may wonder once in a while if a newsreel photographer's life is really as electric as Mr. Gable's portrayal would have you think. It can't be all burning ships and wars and jungles; doesn't Photographer Gable ever have to shoot the Sweepstake winners, or the first snowfall, or Santa Claus, or third assistant secretary Throttlebottom's speech...