Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Macbeth: ". . .Thus the tragedy of Macbeth is inevitably fatalistic, but Shakespeare attempts no solution of the problem of free will and predestination. It is not his office to make a contribution to philosophy or theology...
...many of them, the younger ones particularly, who have never known what it was to earn their own living and in whom even the will to work is decaying. Such a deplorable fact afflicts the conscience of the nation and the desire to do something to solve this problem is not confined to any one class or any one party...
Color will be the cinema's prime problem for 1937. Last week the country's biggest cinemansion, New York's Radio City Music Hall, exhibited the best answer to the problem that Hollywood has made in 1936. It was The Garden of Allah, third cinema version of Robert Hichens' 1907 best seller, produced by Selznick International Pictures, Inc. in six months for $2,200,000. In full color, against a blazing background of North African (Arizona) and, The Garden of Allah, directed by Richard Boleslawski, exhibits Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer and an imposing supporting cast...
...Holm, sharpened and clarified by Playwright George Abbott, has attained the gigantic stature that comes to a stage character with 96 weeks on Broadway, five road companies in the U. S., one in Australia and successful presentations in London and Paris. Oiwin's prestige made him a serious problem to Hal Walk's, Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed the Manhattan production. But what to do with Oiwin? The cinema presented untold possibilities for expanding his talent as a poet and his powers...
Posed in simple form in Manhattan last week was a basic problem of modern capitalism-the divorce of ownership from control. While the management of the $187,500,000 Tide Water Associated Oil Co. counted proxies for a corporate simplification plan in the company's office downtown at No. 17 Battery Place, Tide Water's biggest stockholder, a man with a $20,000,000 stake in the proceedings, sat uptown in his swank Sutton Place penthouse unable to do anything about...