Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Letter of Introduction (Universal). Presumably on the theory that the proper study of mankind is man, Hollywood long ago assumed that the proper study of the cinema is the entertainment business. Cycles in Hollywood flare and fade, but the history of the young girl who goes to Manhattan to become an actress, falls in love with a hoofer and brings down the house on opening night remains as rooted as Narcissus. To the standard ingredients of the backstage formula, Letter of Introduction adds two interesting variants: the show in which Katherine Mannering (Andrea Leeds) makes her gala debut turns...
...nation." Said Editor Fishbein, vexed that Miss Roche had not consulted the potent A. M. A. in preparing her program: "I could tear to pieces . . . this program. . . . Medical care is not the most important problem before the people of the United States today. . . . The fundamental needs of mankind are food, fuel, clothing, shelter and a job, and medical care and dental care must always be subservient to these main human needs...
Minor devil is James Arthur Currigan Luckypenny, middle-aged accountant in a big London munitions firm, bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible...
...maintain the resolution of 'sacrifice.' Let us hold Jesus as the goal for human living; let us keep the mind of Jesus as our mind, the life of Jesus as our life. Let us bravely go with him to the cross, to seek the everlasting peace of mankind, and the renewal of our nation of China...
...that French, Roman Catholic Dr. Carrel is romantic and mystic enough to appreciate - two men, one an ageless seer, the other a young and devoted inventor, sitting on two rocks in the middle of a sea, talking, planning ways to prolong the life and end the ills of mankind...