Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre, having investigated slums, hospitals and prisons in recent years, last week turned its attention to an insane asylum. All the Living takes a steady, unhysterical look at the inside of an overcrowded, understaffed state institution, makes no attempt to prettify the facts, none to magnify the horrors. The mad, like the sane, have their differing personalities, and in an atmosphere vocally more suggestive of a bird shop than a human habitation. All the Living runs the gamut from a cheerful nut willing to swap the White House for a cigar to sex-tormented schoolteachers and victims of dementia praecox...
...kids in pictures who, when they are not acting, go to school on the lot. Headliner among them is an itsy-bitchy angel face (Betty Philson) who starts the ball rolling by having her teacher fired. Thereafter, the dear old Goldwyn-rule days give way to the usual mad, noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks as sinister as a Kewpie doll, acts as honorably as a double-crossing spy, throws telephones across the stage, never lets his right-hand man know what...
...tries to find them again, the camera shows dramatic glimpses into many lives. The first was a suicide for love of Cristine, but lives on in the mind of a grief-mad mother. Another, the one who wooed her in verse, is now a slick crook. The composer (Harry Baur), of whose lyric tribute she was gaily unappreciative, has turned priest. The optimist (Raimu) who was going to be president is mayor of his village, is about to wed his cook. She traces the next to the Marseille water front. There the cameras are literally tilted, and with shrewdly-angled...
...Mad About Music (Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall; TIME, March...
...first place, Summer School offers an opportunity to relieve schedule over-crowding; one full course towards a degree can be passed off by taking two courses in Summer School. This sounds like the arithmetic of the Mad Hatter, but Summer School courses are much less weighty. The gaps in a man's knowledge of his field, often in branches which are not ordinarily covered by the regular courses, can be filled. Last minute tutorial cramming for Divisionals can be avoided by covering a period which has been neglected. Thirdly, many courses given in alternate years, which cannot be taken because...