Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserts her for the second time. The trip, replete with fluffy comedy, engenders love and such songs as Rose Marie and Indian Love Call, whose charm twelve years of plugging have not impaired. Though Bruce's capture of her brother temporarily dampens their ardor, her adroit manager (Reginald Owen) brings them together for one last meaningful duet. Good shot: Gilda Gray, celebrated a decade ago for her extraordinary hip movements, showing cafe patrons what made her famed. Professional Soldier (Twentieth Century-Fox). An ex-colonel of Marines (Victor McLaglen) kidnaps a Balkan...
...Clark, 51, professor of physiological chemistry at Johns Hopkins; the Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society: for researches ''of incalculable value" to medicine (explanation of oxidation and deoxidation processes in the body; methods of determining the acid-alkali balance in water purification and sewage disposal). Dr. Owen Harding Wangensteen, 37, surgery professor at University of Minnesota's medical school; the Samuel D. Gross Prize in surgery ($1,500) of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery: for innovations in the treatment of intestinal obstructions. Percy White Zimmerman, 51, and Albert Edwin Hitchcock, 38, plant physiologists of the Boyce...
Ethan Frome (adapted by Owen & Donald Davis; Max Gordon, producer). When Max Gordon announced that he was going to present a dramatized version of Novelist Edith Wharton's frosty little masterpiece, the first thing that came to the minds of those who had read Ethan Frome was that the producer would have a devilish time staging the sledding crash which is the tragedy's ironic climax. As it turns out, there need have been no such public anxiety. Between them, Producer Gordon, the Playwrights Davis and Designer Jo Mielziner have achieved a rare triumph of art and showmanship...
...hands. That day no kitchen stove in the U. S. could have thawed out the icy tongues of politicians in Washington. Politicians profess to love nothing better than a good political issue. The best political issue in a decade had just been tossed to them when Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts tore the AAAct into bits (TIME, Jan. 13). Yet the tongues of politicians were frozen stiff with fright-fright of what farmers might be saying by their kitchen stoves. As a matter of fact, farmers, still stunned by the Supreme Court's decision, had not recovered enough...
...there be a grain of hope in the recently interrupted improvement in the administration of government, and in Miss Ida Tarbell's "new type of business leader", exemplified by Mr. Owen D. Young, then Government Old Age Pensions are Unnecessary to ensure security for the aged, Government Unemployment, Government interference in all walks of life with their confiscation and redistribution of wealth. All are less effective and permanent than a revived and revised capitalism...