Word: professionalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest problem in devising a screen play for Fred Astaire is how to account dramatically for the fact that he tap-dances better than anyone else in the world. On most occasions he has simply been cast as a celebrated American dancer. In Carefree he explains that he learned to...
St. Josephs in Sullivan County, N. Y. is a bosky, 2,000-acre camp, one of the largest of its kind in the U. S., where 1,200 poor Roman Catholic boys and girls from the New York Archdiocese spend their summers, where Dominican nuns study and where Patrick Joseph...
Meanwhile, in the Reich, would-be refugees continued to haunt U. S. consulates, searching U. S. telephone books for the addresses of Americans who might be their relatives. A typical letter received last week in the U. S.: "Dear Sir, "My name is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., and as my mother is a born...
What made O. K. Bovard a great editor was his inflexible integrity. When Bovard ordered his most famous correspondent, Paul Y. Anderson,* to stop writing for The Nation four years ago, that hardhitting reporter took the order in good part, ridiculed the suggestion "that interests which I have treated none...
For both of these, Capra, as the company's strongest financial asset, has been a more than acceptable substitute. A genial, stocky, 41-year-old son of Sicilian immigrants, he has twice won the top honors of his profession, the Motion Picture Academy's Award for It Happened...