Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale speakers will compete against the Crimson on October 31 in the Public Library auditorium, while trips to the State Prison Colony at Norfolk; Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Yale, Amherst, McGill are planned. No one will be allowed to participate in the spring H-Y-P Coolidge Prize trials unless he has tried out in the October or February Council trials. Membership will be restricted to 20 members this year...
...some $500,000. Indicted were President Harry Triandafillou of Royal Cigarette Corp., Abraham Goodman & Lewis H. Sugarman (makers of Kismet and special club brands), and Retailer Benjamin Seckler. If convicted on all counts, Mr. Triandafillou's company faces a maximum $25,000 fine, himself 123 years in prison...
...60th birthday, Upton Sinclair published his 60th book (Little Steel), wryly declared: "If I were asked to name the one definite thing I have accomplished in my public career I believe it would be that I got an exercise courtyard in the State prison* of Delaware...
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) is one of the least kinetic and one of the most absorbing of cinema's innumerable treatments of the World War. Concerned not with fighting but with respite from fighting, it investigates a group of French inmates of a German prison camp. The prisoners-principally an austere patrician, Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), his mechanic, Marechal (Jean Gabin), and a generous fellow, Rosenthal (Dalio), who shares the canned delicacies sent by his rich family-naturally try to escape. Director Renoir, however, builds his plot, not around the success or failure of this enterprise, but around...
...restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...