Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's mounting gold output disturbed even the august assembly of the Bank for International Settlements meeting last week in Basle, Switzerland. On hand were such central banking potentates as Britain's Montagu Norman, Germany's Hjalmar Schacht, France's Emile Labeyrie. Representing the U. S. was Vice President Samuel A. Welldon of Manhattan's First National Bank...
...Died. Norman Hapgood, 69, oldtime liberal journalist, onetime (1919) Minister to Denmark; after an operation; in Manhattan. He edited Collier's (1903-12), Harper's Weekly (1913-16), Hearst's International Magazine (1923-25), was currently editor of the Unitarian Christian Register...
When Franklin Roosevelt's No. 1 Good Neighborhood agent, grey and graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, went to the reconvened Sugar sessions of the ill-fated World Economic Conference of 1933 in London last month, he announced his intentions with such a neat sous-entendu as would make a French Foreign Officer preen (TIME, April 19). Said he: "This is the sweetest [mission] I have ever had. . . . If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...
...until, with three weeks rent due at her boardinghouse, she gets a job as waitress at a party given by Producer Oliver Niles (Adolphe Menjou), does Esther encounter her hero in the flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles...
...precisely this point of view as contrasted with Norman Maine's own evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best...