Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Social Lion (Paramount) No particular wit of dialog or situation makes this picture sparkle, yet it sparkles; its story is unremarkable, yet continuously entertaining. It concerns a prizefighter who loses an important fight because he takes seriously an opponent who tells him his shoe is untied. Later, having returned...
A veteran hoofer, Mr. Cohan is qualified to put plenty of credible pathos into the part of "Hap" Farrell, of Carroll & Farrell -Songs, Dances & Funny Sayings. With the death of his partner, "Hap" falls upon evil days, tries to rob a man, is regenerated and goes out West where he...
The Impresario. Ravinia owes its existence to Louis Eckstein, a genial, versatile gentleman whose vocations have been many but whose one and only avocation is Ravinia. President Eckstein ("president" is the title he gives himself for managing and financing an opera company) was born 65 years ago in Milwaukee, attended...
"Believing as I do," wrote Donor Cook, "that American institutions are of more consequence than the wealth or power of the country, and believing that the preservation and development of these institutions have been, are, and will continue to be under the leadership of the legal profession, and believing also...
Unamuno, a great name in Spain, famed throughout Europe, is not so well known in the U. S. Most religious of philosophers, most passionate of professors. Unamuno's earnestness and energy are untypical of Spain, his violent, rebellious liberalism untypical of his academic profession. Unamuno looks at life passionately...