Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those scenes which are not devoted to the fascinating finance of Orloff are, for the most part, dull--particularly those in which Antony makes casual love to Niki. Allison Skipworth supplies slight comedy relief...
...advisers should live in or near the center of Freshman activities, the Yard. Furthermore, the number of proctor-advisers should be increased to fifty, so that there would not be more than twenty advisees assigned to one man. As for those who are willing to perform services of love-among them some excellent professors-they could be used most effectively in those places not covered by the new plan...
...would." For a wedding present the groom gave the bride a doll. Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning, upon finding the State powerless to annul the marriage: "It's nothing short of tragedy...
Criminal Lawyer (RKO) adds nothing to the standard pattern of courtroom melodramas. Engaged to a girl he does not love and working for a notable criminal, shyster Lawyer Brandon (Lee Tracy) ditches both when he encounters a pretty streetwalker (Margot Grahame) in night court and when he is offered the district attorney's job. This lands him in both marital and legal hot water which reaches the boiling point in the inevitable courtroom finale. Portraying four other court battles as well, Criminal Lawyer obtains its only tinge of interest from the clever cross-questioning tactics of Lawyer Brandon...
...LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER, Vol. II: 1848-1860-Ernest Newman-Knopf ($5). Masterly account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...