Word: lovelornness
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Considered as a disease, suicide cannot be cured, but it can be prevented. Some of Dr. Moore's recommended preventives: C. Reading "psychologically inspirational articles'' in newspapers, such as "Advice to the Lovelorn" by "Beatrice Fairfax" (whose real name is Marie Manning) fills "a need which we as physicians in public institutions are slow to recognize, namely, the desire of anxious persons to come in contact with the thoughts of others on daily problems...
...more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan (who also directed the film) and Guy Bolton built up to it poorly through the earlier portions of the picture, which develop Grey's romance with the director of the Star's "Lovelorn Column" (Virginia Bruce). The Murder Man is consequently only a little better than the average popgun and city-room mystery play, distinguished mainly by the agreeable acting of its two seasoned principals...
...false start toward the ministry, young Taylor went to Pacific University but decided not to get the medical degree he wanted. The title of "Doctor" was applied to him years later at the suggestion of William Jennings Bryan when he was already well known as an adviser to the lovelorn. Orator Bryan suggested that Taylor call himself "Doctor of Matrimony." Scrupulously ethical in his radio addresses, Taylor is careful never to give any medical advice- except to endorse the patent medicines which sponsor his programs...
...Filmed as Advice to the Lovelorn (TIME...
...Nellie Nelson" is overfond of inelegant cliches like "So you can't take it." When Bradshaw sits down to write a column, he does it with one sheet of paper in his typewriter. Hi, Nellie is one cut above Darryl Zanuck's feeble Advice to the Lovelorn which it copies, but its only veracity is a performance by Ned Sparks as an embittered legman. Good shot: tiny Sidney Skolsky, Holly-wood columnist for the New York Daily News, making his cinema debut when emerges timidly a nightclub wash room...