Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without a let-down. Another element, sort of added attraction, is some thought-content,--not much, it's true, but some. The characters of Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent excursions downward. The girl-lead, Cindy Lou, while undergoing ordeal by hell-fire and brimstone in the process, eventually lands on the top of the heap in the final scene, showing that Miss Booth may have some surreptitious respect for her and the things she stands...
...Evanston, Ill., Northwestern-exhibiting their precious new Wildcat, highly touted Bill de Correvont, who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High two years ago-discovered that they needed more than de Correvont's swivel hips to make a bid for the Big Ten title. Against Oklahoma, Big Six champions last year, the Wildcats were stampeded...
...love story about the young airplane mechanic and the traveling show girl in the quietest little Mid-American village in Hollywood. But when it shows U. S. average citizens organized by some mysterious agency to wreck airplanes, spoil machines, plant bombs by night in factories where the bomb-planters make their living by day, then uncorks a Hollywood program of vigilantes and kangaroo courts for dealing with them, Sabotage begins to look like the well-timed opening gun in a campaign to shoot for the witch-hunter trade...
...musicians, it plays a thin, modest, molto andante treble to such thumping pictures as They Shall Have Music (Jascha Heifetz), The Star Maker (Walter Dam-rosch). Rare top notes are contributed by Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's leading cinemactress, whose grave good looks, lit by a big-mouthed smile, make her one of the most promising Scandinavian exports since Garbo...
Athletics at college have always been a touchy subject. It has been very easy to make accusations of professionalism but much harder to ward off the charges. The new Inter-University Committee on Eligibility, consisting of one faculty member each from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, must aid in removing the slightest trace of impurity that might be thought to exist. Nevertheless it is unfortunate that it should be considered necessary to place responsibility for athletics with academic authorities...