Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RUTH ARNOLD Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense." How accurate is Flesch's gloomy picture? Last week, in the Chicago Sun-Times, a onetime assistant professor at Western Reserve who is now a reporter spoke up for the educators. Flesch's book, says Ruth Dunbar, "is a caricature, not a portrait . . . Johnny does learn to read in today's schools." It is true, says Reporter Dunbar, that most schools have in the first grade abandoned the old phonic (i.e., letter by letter and syllable by syllable) method of teaching a child to read...
Between hour exams that Fall, the Class of '30 relaxed by watching singer Ruth Etting, star of Ziegfeld's "Whoopee." In a CRIMSON interview, Miss Etting said that she picked most of her songs by the "heart throb" in them because "the kids like the sob stuff." Today, the currently most-popular motion picture in Boston now at Loew's State Theater, is the life story of this same performer as portrayed by Dovis...
...farm girl from David City, Neb., Ruth was singing in obscure Chicago nightclubs when she first encountered a Runyonesque character who called himself Colonel Martin Snyder. Actually, the colonel had been born Moses Snyder in a West Side slum, and the closest he had come to the military life was in the Chicago gang wars. Known familiarly as "The Gimp" because of a pronounced limp attributed to 17 shotgun slugs in his leg, Snyder soon proved his ability as a show-business Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato...
...levels of exasperation with as much ease and artistry as Bix Beiderbecke ever displayed in reaching the high note on his cornet. Cameron Mitchell makes the luckless Alderman a consistent and believable hu man being as well as a clay pigeon. Those who remember the sexy serenity with which Ruth Etting handled such numbers as the title song, Everybody Loves My Baby, At Sundown, and It All Depends on You, may find Doris Day's characterization of the star both too pallid and too girl-next-door. Doris tries hard, but, like the film costumes that are supposed...