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...effect of Lady Grayston's misconduct upon her young sister may seem less important dramatic material now than it did when Our Betters was performed on Broadway in 1917, but the conversation adapted for the screen by Jane Murfin and Harry Wagstaff Gribble still crackles. Constance Bennett's mannerisms and her loud voice, possibly a shade more metallic than she intends it to be, become her part. Violet Kemble-Cooper and Gilbert Roland (Luis Antonio Damaso De Alonso, son of a Spanish bullfighter), are the other most noticeable members of an expert cast, expertly directed by George Cukor...
...which she selected for herself, Constance Bennett lost ten pounds. This was not the only mishap in connection with Rockabye. A version of it made last summer with Phillips Holmes in Joel McCrea's role was so unsuccessful that RKO did the whole thing over again, with Jane Murfin & Kubec Glasmon to rewrite Horace Jackson's script and George Cukor directing instead of George Fitzmaurice. It emerges finally as a first-grade program picture, lachrymose but reasonable, brightened by Jobyna Howland's expert characterization of Judy's tippling mother. Instructive shot : Jobyna Howland struggling vaguely...
...president, Michigan University closed her doors without having named a successor to the late Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, her dead President (TIME, Mar. 2). Never were the educational woods so full of likely timber, yet there was only one rumor of a marked man. That came from James O. Murfin, a regent of the University, and was perhaps more than a rumor. At a Michigan convention, held, last week, at Detroit, Mr. Murfin invited those present to embody in the form of a resolution their sentiments towards Samuel Emory Thomason, '04, Chicago lawyer, Vice President of the Chicago Tribune...
...Dome Lease," you are referring to a political episode that arose long: after he had ceased to have any connection with public life. In the interest of fair play, may I ask you to make a suitable correction at your earliest convenience to this grossly erroneous paragraph ? JAMES O. MURFIN. Everyone knows that Mr. Newberry resigned from the Senate. Instead of "driven," TIME should perhaps have used "driven to resign." The facts are as Mr. Murfin states them. Mr. Murfin all but says that Mr. Newberry was driven to resign by the atmosphere with which he was surrounded...