Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arliss plays the character role of Nathan Rothschild, and before that of the penurious elder Rothschild, superbly well. It requires great skill and considerable sympathy to act the part of a member of a despised race, but Mr. Arliss is entirely equal to the task. It is unfortunate from the historical point of view that the producers have seen fit to make Mr. Arliss's role far more pleasant on the screen than it was in actual life. Under Hollywood hands Nathan Rothschild becomes an heroic, altruistic, entirely admirable person. For example, the movie shows Rothschild risking every cent...
...seen in When Ladies Meet) has for 15 years been kept with quiet dignity by a small and practical Baltimorean (Mr. Truex). Because of her propensity for bestowing her latchkey on attractive strangers ("It's so hard to know what to give a man"), the lady snares dissolute Nathan Gifford (Eliot Cabot). Unhappily, the lady's daughter, fresh from a French convent, decides to get Mr. Gifford for herself. She does. Her mother seeks temporary solace in the familiar arms of her longtime protector...
...bargain prices, these time-honored attractions were tempting theatregoers on Broadway last week: The Lady From the Sea. Henrik Ibsen's psychological drama of a woman who is impelled to leave her husband for an earlier spiritual alliance was revived by onetime Dramacritic Nathan Zatkin. Most of Playwright Ibsen's magic has survived the 46 disenchanting years that have passed since it was put to paper. Tall Mary Hone, as the wife, performs creditably in a rôle last played in Manhattan by Blanche Yurka five years ago, by Eleanora Duse ten years ago.* Iolanthe. The operetta...
Earlier in the day the Associated Harvard Clubs held their elections for the coming year. Hugh L. Gaddis '12 of Cleveland, Ohio was elected president; Nathan Pereles, Jr. '04, of Milwaukee was chosen secretary; Mackey Wells '08, also of Milwaukee was reelected trasurer...
...Disillusion and Deceit and in their proximity to the youth's feet, an affront to womanhood. Glad of an opportunity to have fun, Manhattan newspapers exulted in lavish, impartial ridicule, made the incident one of Manhattan's most famed art squabbles. As late as 1932 Merchant Nathan Straus Jr. was writing to onetime Mayor James John Walker, asking the statue's removal...