Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking the consistently serious stand that women take jury service more to heart than men, Miss Esther Gordon introduced the affirmative arguments. "But jury duty is such a trial," answered the first Crimson speaker, Robert W. Bean '39, and he didn't see why women wanted jury duty...
...Miss Ruth Gillerman, as Maxya Andreyevna, plays the lead in this tragicomic drama of pre-revolutionary Russia...
...Republican Army, play their roles with such feeling and restraint that the feeling of creaky propaganda, too apparent in many epics of social struggle, is absent. As a result the picture possesses a dignity and artistic sincerity not often met with. Mr. O'Sullivan as the young patriot and Miss O'Connor as his fiancee are outstanding. The quality of the photography and sound lag a little behind that of the acting, but these can be learned from Hollywood, while fine acting cannot...
...that Shirley Temple has grown up, it is time that Hollywood stopped exploiting her round little face, took about fifteen pounds off her, and let her act. If she were given a chance, Miss Temple could act very well, as she proved in "Wee Willie Winkie"; but too often she is thrown into a saccarhine musical cocktail just to appease the Tired Business Man. Such a picture is "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...
Accepting nothing but the title of Kate Douglas Wiggin's pig-tailed story, "Rebecca" makes a brave effort to amuse. Surrounded by pleasant people (Gloria Stuart, Randolph Scott, Bill Robinson, Slim Summerville), Miss Temple gives a mature and finished performance within a plot that seems somewhat septuagenarian. It is about Little Miss America, her starched Aunt Miranda, and a vigorous radio executive, and it ends in music...