Word: merediths
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Thus the New Deal added another literary light to its representatives overseas who already include: Novelist Meredith Nicholson, Minister to Paraguay; Historian William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Germany; Journalist Claude G. Bowers. Ambassador to Spain; Publisher Lincoln MacVeagh, Minister to Greece...
...Utah as instructor in English, then to New York University. With his second wife, Margaret Trusler, whom he married in 1929, he now lives on his father's ranch, near Ririe, Idaho. The titles for the first three volumes of his tetralogy were taken from his admired George Meredith (Modern Love...
...poor banker just out of Atlanta after a five year vacation there for his noble deeds in the great days of '29. With him as co-partner is a man who threatens to replace Victor Moore as the typification of American stupidity. Porter Hall as this unfortunate "Charlie Meredith," is all that any stooge could be, and he adds to his part tremendously by magnificent acting in a role which is an easy one to overdo...
...pressagent, pretending that the affianced couple are expecting a child, exhibits a tiny sweater. The actress shudders eloquently. Hipper's Holiday (by John Crump; Marian T. Carter, producer) is an amateur effort to make a farce of an amateur kidnapping. A cowardly young hobo named Jim Hipper (Burgess Meredith) perpetrates the crime, but his victim is a tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage by the end of Act II. When...
...Woolley 's performance . . . was practically perfect of its kind. . . . There is now a conception and a tradition to the part of 'Z' that well may be standard. . . . Mr. Meredith generously permitted his colleague to take all the tricks. ... He was to her what Georgie Burns is to Gracie Allen...