Word: runge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rose of Washington Square (Twentieth Century-Fox) is prefaced by the customary assurance that any resemblance to fact is purely "coincidental." This legal formula has never rung more hollowly. The picture chronicles the rise of Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, renamed Ted Cotter and played by Al Jolson. Ted's good friend in the picture is one Rose Sargent (Alice Faye), a Ziegfeld star whose worthless husband (Tyrone Power) besmirches her name by fleeing justice after he becomes involved in a bond scandal. Rose vows her loyalty and, by sobbing out from the Ziegfeld stage the song My Man, persuades...
...loan to Nationalist China. This was the latest of a long series of loans which have bolstered China's economy. Britain had previously loaned $2,500,000 and $25,000,000. The U. S. put up $25,000,000 last December. Fortnight ago Finance Minister H. H. Rung announced that a Belgian firm had agreed to a $100,000,000 loan and that Russia may help soon with a "huge" one. Japan, on the other hand, has not been able to wring a single yen from her busy but broke allies, Germany and Italy...
...board to judge them, the audience settles back to relish the play's meatiest, juiciest moments. But they are also its weakest: the inquisitor is too whimsically conceived, vice is too glibly punished, virtue too sentimentally recompensed. Perhaps a better artist (though a less canny storyteller) would have rung down his curtain as his characters, in bewilderment and trepidation, reached the threshold of their eternal home. It takes at least a Dante to draw a convincing diagram of Hell...
...hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches prophesied the forthcoming promotion of Ambassador Shigemitsu to the highest rung in the Japanese diplomatic ladder, Ambassador to London...
...Class of 1942 the Crimson editors extend a most hearty welcome. Although it is always sad to see a class graduate, it is perennially pleasant to receive the new one, for by replacing the other it preserves the four-rung ladder of Harvard undergraduate education. As the newest part in this old instrument, which swings with each year's fresh win yet is braced by the soundness gained from the past, you Freshmen are obliged to reflect on what you will do to make the rung sturdy and lasting. Because not only is the future of Harvard dependent on your...