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...book collector's service to the mind of mankind cannot be overestimated. Private collections are a joy to their possessor, and often enable scholarship to perform work more congenially than is possible in a public institution. By placing their valuable possessions at the disposal of scholars and learned societies, many collectors have enriched literature. By their public spirit they have glorified public collections. It is not difficult to realize the value to scholars, and thence to literature, of the accessibility of books in such collections as the Widener at Harvard, the Huntington in California, and the Morgan in New York...
...this rôle Edward G. Robinson, one of the authors, gives a finely shaded performance. Mr. Robinson has for several years been playing snarling caitiffs in the wave of crime plays. His transformation into the well-meaning meddler of Kibitzer reveals him as the possessor of an unusually clear sense of comedy values. Alexis Polianov, Eugene Powers and Hobart Cavanaugh also are worthy of mention, and Producer-Director Patterson McNutt is to be credited with a steady-handed...
...concluding with the words: 'We are going to counter-attack.' " The Bullard valor is concealed beneath a mild, diminutive exterior. Yet the soldierly Bullard conscience might serve as a model for all the retired military, so often and so strongly does it move its possessor to issue grave warnings to all good citizens against the insidious dangers of peace talk and unpreparedness...
...third-place teams play each other. Then the third-place winner plays the second-place winner. The winner of this series plays the first-place winner; the winner of this final series is, for what reason it is difficult to tell, the World's Champion and the possessor of the Stanley...
...Dramatic Club of West Virginia University, proud possessor of a Cumnock Cup (1927), early this school year leased a local theater; called it The University Playhouse; presented four major plays, The Pelican, The Family Upstairs, Outward Bound, In Love with Love; attained the distinction of being the only organization of its kind possessing, by deed or lease, a playhouse; presenting therein major plays; receiving only advice from its collegiate connection; making expenses...