Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Movies, Beggar on Horseback, The Butter and Egg Man, The Royal Family, June Moon, Once in a Lifetime, Of Thee I Sing, Dinner at Eight, You Can't Take It With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner implies as great a knowledge of what the public will laugh at as of how to keep it laughing. Kaufman beat all his rivals at comedy and satire because what really concerned him was never the nature of the target, but only the location of the bull...
Rhea did not want to be a tipster (though he did well by himself playing the market, averaged $436.19 gain for every $100 loss), but tipster he was to the public. Hundreds went to Colorado Springs to get advice from the great man. He arranged his invalid's schedule so that he worked early in the morning and late at night, was sound asleep when most people called. Soon he had 25 assistants, and his bedroom turned into a statistic factory. Sometimes he composed tirades against Franklin Roosevelt, which were incorporated in his market letters...
Died. Dr. Livingston Farrand, 72, modest, beloved president-emeritus of Cornell University; of bronchopneumonia and empyema; in Manhattan. A public health authority, a physician by training, he took leave of absence from the presidency of the University of Colorado (1914-19) to direct a civilian war against tuberculosis in France, stayed to guide Red Cross rehabilitation of millions of eastern and central European children...
First Love (Universal). Sixteen-year-old Deanna Durbin, Universal's sweetish nightingale, also happens to be its biggest box-office asset. Last week her studio faced a nerve-cracking crisis-Deanna Durbin, having unmistakably outgrown short skirts, must be shown to her public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...
...possum in the enemy camp. Lying low in a high place, Eliot never included in his published works various light verses about cats which his friends and a few children received from time to time, typewritten and unsigned. The present collection marks, among other things, Eliot's first public acknowledgment of possumhood...