Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McClure's greatest sensation was Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company. This week Miss Tarbell, now 81, tells the story in a benign, careful, unsensational autobiography which contains the best account to date of McClure's great days. She was freelancing in Paris in 1892, when a slight, restless, sandy-haired young man bounded up the 80 steps to her apartment, announced that he was Samuel Sidney McClure, said he could stay only ten minutes, talked over plans for articles for hours, rushed off to Switzerland after borrowing $40 from his future star...
Written around a theme as modern as it is pertinent, "Dark Victory," currently at the Metropolitan, is a powerful production, well adapted to Bette Davis' peculiar talent for portraying the neurotic. As the Long Island society girl who discovers a meaning in life just before hers is snuffed out, Miss Davis gives a brilliant and convincing performance. This study of a woman torn between the routine religious attitude of the Victorian age and the realism of today will appeal to the philosophers in the audience. The way in which certain characters, like the trainer (Humphrey Bogart), are used to symbolize...
Bearer of the lecturing, traveling, interviewing, letter-writing and literary brunt is Miss Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson. She has been Mrs. Roosevelt's private secretary for 17 years. A sagacious, worldly-wise grass widow (until her 1938 divorce, Mrs. Scheider), Miss Thompson declares that never has she known Mrs. Roosevelt to do or say anything insincere. She thinks her ability to do and say so much results from Eleanor Roosevelt's being what is really meant by the word Christian...
...Singer Anderson had waived her $1,750 fee, nobody paid admission, her program was considerably below her artistic par. This was all because, by last week, the Anderson Affair had become more a matter of politics than of Art or even of Race. After the D. A. R. kept Miss Anderson out of Constitution Hall and Eleanor Roosevelt quit the Daughters in protest (TIME, March 6, et seq.), a Marian Anderson Citizens' Committee went to work to rebuke Negrophobes. In so doing, it put on the spot many a politico to whom the U. S. Negro vote will...
Catholic if somewhat cursory, Miss Hoffman's chapters on great sculpture are aided by keenly chosen illustrations. Once a worshiping student of Rodin, she speaks with equal understanding of the intense simplifications of Brancusi. But her chief theme is the craft itself. Among other things, she describes in ingratiating detail: the processes of casting in bronze, techniques and mechanisms for making enlargements from a small model, tools, tempers and techniques for working in different types of stone, an orderly scheme for scrubbing a studio...