Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meaty melodramas which can be acted with vitality. Miss Cornell's glowing performance last season showed her audiences not only a new Juliet but virtually a new play. Few months before he appeared as Othello in Central City, Colo. last year (TIME, July 30, 1934), Walter Huston read the play for the first time, made of the Moor a fiery and plausible modern hero...
...style. The latter subject "Pa" Rolfe has made palatable to many a Hill boy with verses he wrote at odd times concerning Old Testament characters. Now published is a collection of these: Songs of Saints and Sinners.* Explains "Pa" Rolfe in a preface: "Those who chance to read them and find them too familiar, or, perhaps, flippant, will please remember that in the thoughts of the present generation these characters wear no halo. As a matter of fact, many girls and boys of today have never heard of them. They may have Bibles, presented by fond grandmothers, but they...
...magazines, eight radio stations, two cinema companies and vast real estate holdings for current business reasons and so that it should be more wieldy for his heirs and executors. Last week Hearst profits were examined by such divergent publications as FORTUNE* and the New Masses, but nowhere could anyone read what Publisher Hearst intends shall become of his empire after his death. On that point even his lawyer and grand vizier, San Francisco's John Francis Neylan, professes utter ignorance...
Personal interviews with the secretaries will take place on December 12 or 14 this year. Mr. Matthiesson advises all candidates to read "The Oxford Handbook," which is on reserve in the Widener Reading Room. Official catalogues on Oxford University may be consulted in the Delivery Room...
...this way can only make the situation worse. To ban a book or play only makes it all the more sought after. To insist on an oath of allegiance only makes the teachers more unsympathetic with the government. Mr. Campbell is reported to have said that he would read "Captains Courageous" again and give his decision at the end of the week. It is to be hoped that he will refuse the request...