Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both $100 undergraduate Bowdoin prizes in the Classics field for his translations into Latin and Attic Greek. Milman G. Parry 2G won $200 for a Greek essay, while Cecil B. Pascal 2G received Honorable Mention. Kenneth J. Reckford '54 won the John Osborne Sargent prize of $200, while Roland F. Perkins '52 won a $100 prize for excellence in Latin, to complete awards in the Classics field...
...film that is supposedly about criminal psychology, My Six Convicts strives a bit too hard to be something-for-everybody entertainment. Acting honors go to Gilbert Roland, the volatile gangster, and to Millard Mitchell, the laconic safecracker, who has his day of glory in Kansas City opening a jammed vault at the request of bank authorities...
Wilson's reminiscences of his work with them is an unspectacular, but realistic and amusing story. Millard Mitchell and Gilbert Roland competently act out two of the more stereo graphed convicts, but the large majority of the convicts fall into no common types. Alongside the hardened multiple-offenders there are the nondescript little men -- seldom closely examined in prison movies -- who have cheated on their income tax or juggled the books; consequently, although it remains doubtful what significance Wilson's "California Test" had, his stay at San Quentin is material enough for a unique motion picture...
...cinematic reprise with an ex pertly packaged omnibus of three enter taining short stories: i ) The ironic Ant and the Grasshopper, in which a ne'er-do-well playboy (Nigel Patrick) marries the third richest girl in the world, buys back the family estate his hard-working brother (Roland Culver) had been forced to sell, repays Culver the ?1.300 he had borrowed, and at the last minute, true to form, cadges a fiver from him. Typical tongue-in-camera sequence: the elegant playboy, to shame his brother into giving him money, goes to work as a doorman...
Those honored are: Richard F. Athey, Fred F. Berry, Jr., Woodford L. Flowers, Harry B. French, Donald W. Graham, Bradford K. Kroha, John J. Nevin, Warner F. Rankin, Jr., Starr F. Schlobohm, Harry A. Sidles, Roland L. Sundstrom, Allen R. Warrington, John R. Yarnell. None are Harvard graduates...