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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William A. Whitcraft '39; "Cop," Rendigs Fols '39; "Reverend Salvation" and "Stevie," Kendall Smith 3G; "Editor Daily and Dauber," Rupert Pole '40; "Yasha," Arthur Szathmary 2G; "Prexy," Robert Rothschild '39; "Scoot," Jonas Muller '40; "Doctor Specialist," Alfred Eisner '39; "Druggist," John Wahlke '39; "Bugs," Robert Seidman '41 and "Gus Polack," Roger Henselman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union Thespians Will Give Timely Musical Drama | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...Other Woman (RKO). The trouble with most stories which try to dramatize the machine age is that they seem to have been turned out by machinery. This one, even to the detail of its title, is no exception, although there are moments-like the lively ceremony of a Polack wedding in a Pennsylvania steel town-in which it comes to life. It is the story of a few crucial years in the life of a steel puddler, Jim Stanley (Charles Bickford), and his loving wife, Anna. Jim starts out as a laborer, becomes, for the purposes of the narrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1933 | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...Oakes building the house, living in it in ancestral splendor. Then you skip to 1890. Judith Oakes, last of her clan, is an embittered spinster, mistress of a decrepit estate. The old settlers are vanishing, the Poles are coming in. When Judith discovers that her niece has married the Polack hired man she dies of a stroke. When Death comes for his parents, Orrange Olszak struggles on with the farm. The story comes down to the present again. The Baldwins have arrived at just the right time : Orrange was beginning to get desperate. Now all will be well: old True...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Referberation | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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