Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make the picture another British threat to Hollywood. Typical shot: the financier, just after he has taken an overdose of adrenalin, giving the deck steward a ?5 note...
...country has more to gain from peace and the sanctity of treaties than France. So it is not surprising to find that many Frenchmen are now saying that France made a tragic mistake in supporting Japan (in a backhand manner) in the Manchurian affair. And they note, with bitterness, that it was the Do Wendel press that wanted to let Japan have her imperial...
Dealing with the rise of a little German princess to the position of Empress of all the Russias, "Catherine the Great" is a thoroughly excellent picture. Alexander Korda, whose previous work of note was "Henry VIII," is responsible for the able direction of "Catherine," and to him goes the credit for successfully catching the gaudy brilliance of the "nouveau riche" Russia that was trying to imitate the grandeur of contemporary Europe. Elizabeth Bergner, as has oft been repeated, does a splendid job to produce an absorbing Catherine; and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. also capably handles the Mad Czar Peter, whose throne...
While Yale does not go quite so far as Princeton in this direction, it is interesting to note that this new method of upperclass study will be linked to the House Plan, since the tutorial work will be carried on by House fellows, who will have nothing to do with the making out or grading of examinations at all. This will be done by committees from the various graduate faculties. This seems a step in the direction of divorcement of tutorial work from all ordinary teaching, which will be viewed with interest by all educators, especially if it goes...
Long consideration of the U. S. scene has not made Critic Brooks an optimist. He thinks U. S. writers tend to lose their personality. ". . . The American writer, having struck out with his new note, becomes-how often!-progressively less and less himself. The blighted career, the arrested career, the diverted career are, with us, the rule." But he has cold comfort for the pseudo-stoics: "To be, to feel oneself, a 'victim' is in itself not to be an artist, for it is the nature of the artist to live, not in the world of which...