Word: nugents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 30 weeks in New York, "That's Gratitude," a light comedy with J. C. Nugent and Taylor Holmes, has come to the Wilbur. Starting off with a bedroom scene between four males, it preserves its quality of "clean fun" (as the Parent's League bulletin puts it) throughout. Whether this is to be regarded as a virtue or a final damnation depends, in this decadent age, wholly upon individual taste...
...refreshing to see Taylor Holmes once again and particularly in the company of such a congenial player as J. C. Nugent. Being the first night, both of them made curtain speeches which sort of stamped the evening as a real affair...
Wilbur--"That's Gratitude." Taylor Holmes and J. C. Nugent in an amusing comedy by Frank Craven...
...theory was flouted (as at a psychologists' meeting was flouted the more modern theory that punishment is bad for chil dren-see p. 22) by Dr. Ralph Haefner of Columbia University in a book* based upon studies by Dr. Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia and Dr. Frank Nugent Freeman of the University of Chicago. For two years these pedagogs experimented with 2,000 typewriters, 14,000 school children and 400 school teachers. Most newsworthy result: that children who do their written class work both by hand and by typewriter show more improvement in handwriting than children...
There are times when the story of Life Begins is almost snowed under by a blizzard of tiny garments and when Directors James Flood and Elliott Nugent seem to have forgotten that ''Don't confuse the issue" is as good a motto for films as for maternity hospitals. There are too many scenes showing a mother's pleased surprise on first viewing her offspring, too many shots of prop infants wrapped in blankets. Despite these faults and a theme which is a little too obviously dripping with drama, Life Begins, first release on Warner Brothers' 1932-33 production program, manages...