Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alcatraz Island (First National-Warner Bros.). Studio magic simulates the stern Federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, involves it in a loose-jointed melodrama acted by John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire, Dick Purcell and Gordon Oliver...
...Fiorello La Guardia. A progressive, pro-labor, a disciple of Franklon Roosevelt and a man of unchallenged integrity, LaGuardia stands to win everything if he is returned to office as Mayor of New York. 1940 will most likely see Henry Wallace facing Vandenburg and if eight years of Roosevelt magic proves too much for the G. O. P. machine, then, certainly 1944 will see LaGuardia in a key position, both in his own Republican party and in the affections and admiration of the people of the United States...
...works the musicians hope to read include: Cesar Franck's D-Minor Symphony, Haydn's Surprise Symphony, Brahm's Second Symphony, Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute and his Serenade in D, a Frescobaldi Fugue in G-Minor arranged by Mr. Holmes, and Bach's prelude and Fugue in B Flat Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavichord, arranged by R. U. Jameson '30, a former Pierian Manager...
...President of the University, from 1910 to 1933, George Lyman Kittredge '82, the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and practically everything else connected with English literature, and Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher--Harvard names to conjure with, but the Class of 1941 will not come under the magic of their spell...
...Wells's books, Brynhild or The Show of Things also encouraged Wellsians by its age-belying vigor. The story of a clever man's disintegration and an honest woman's fulfillment, it is also a Wellsian fable, told without his usual blackboard charts and magic-lantern slides, of the human search for reality...