Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a run on the history books is abnormal. For, despite the theatre's love of dressing up, historical plays are notoriously bad box office. But if the success of such plays as Oscar Wilde and Abe Lincoln in Illinois is due to competent writing and first-rate acting, the vogue for historical plays in general is really a commentary on the times. With war, fascism, strikes, depressions bearing down on all sides, playwrights and audiences alike tend to be confused, disturbed, jittery, and plays laid in the settled past offer a ready form of escape...
Brother Rat (Warner Bros.-First National). An ingratiating survey of undergraduate language, baseball games, parades, hazing, discipline, finance and love-making at Virginia Military Institute, adapted from the 1936 Broadway hit and played, with appropriate youthful flourishes (see cut), by Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Jane Bryan and Eddie Albert...
Students in the College's School of Business and Civic Administration have no great love for its dictatorial dean, Dr. Justin H. Moore. In 1934 he suppressed an April Fool issue of The Ticker, student weekly, for "obscenity." He once censored the Monthly, has suspended editors for sauciness. Last week student editors learned that in 1934 Dean Moore wrote a book called Mexican Love, hitherto unknown to U. S. readers because it was published in London by Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., publishers of popular fiction...
...reviewed last week. One student publication reported that U. S. Postal authorities had threatened to bar it from the mails if it printed a story containing excerpts from the book, and that John S. Sumner, head of the N. Y. Society for the Suppression of Vice, had denounced Mexican Love...
Died. Lascelles Abercrombie, 57, British poet (Interludes and Poems, Emblems of Love) and Oxford don who in 1930 was proposed for the post of Poet Laureate; in London...