Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is a private organization which operates a spa in the central Georgia mountains where the President occasionally went to swim after becoming paralyzed by poliomyelitis. Although doctors know that the chief merit of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation over a swimming pool or big bathtub is the fact that the residents can bathe in the open air in winter time, the place became a mecca for infantile-paralytics. After paying off mortgages with the dance money, putting up new buildings, Georgia Warm Springs had accommodations for about 300 infantile-paralytics at $21 per week, and some 75 charity cases...
...That Glitters (by John Barag-wanath and Kenneth Simpson; produced by George Abbott). News that George Abbott is directing a play interests Broadway more than who wrote it, or who acts in it. Abbott is noted for discovering merit in scripts rejected by other producers, is able by skilful play-doctoring, casting and directing to whip up a hit out of what looked like nothing.* Nevertheless, Abbott's whiphand some-times falters: his first two shows this season (Angel Island, Brown Sugar) were flops. But last week his third attempt looked as if it might last...
...book is not, however, the much abused type of literary reminiscences which flood the bookstores with new versions every week. His pattern characterization which persist throughout increase its merit. He does not sit in an armchair with his won bibliography in front of him, going over each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...
...uninspiring job just for the sake of discipline and something to do may have merit, but life is too short to spend much time postponing the pursuit of a well conceived career...
...Artistic excellence and box-office success are not always the same thing, even to Hollywood. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures has a committee on exceptional photoplays that annually picks ten U. S. pictures for their artistic merit. Top choice for 1937 was creepy, melodramatic Night Must Fall. Others, in order: The Life of Emile Zola, Black Legion, Camille, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Good Earth, They Won't Forget, Captains Courageous, A Star Is Born, Stage Door...