Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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bird!. . . Oh, my sad heart is pining for one fond...
...fact that the Harvard School of Education is hardly noted as a shining light in the field of education is a sad commentary on the situation. It serves to emphasize the mediocrity of the profession as a whole and it demonstrates the general inferiority and inadequacy in the educational training falsities of the country. Normal schools everywhere should be jacked up if they are not to be conspicuous for their uselessness. Perhaps an ideal school for training teachers will be an impossibility for a long time to come. But the successful placement of the graduates of the Harvard Graduate School...
...Farewell to Arms (Paramount) will disappoint only those pessimists who, hearing about the difficulties that cropped up during the adaptation of Author Hemingway's sad novel and remembering that it made a wretched play, expected it to be a classic botch. But the picture emerges as a compelling and beautifully imagined piece of work, brilliantly directed by Frank Borzage, acted to perfection by Gary Cooper - whose numb mannerisms are pre cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last...
...comedian, too much of a numbskull and oaf to be a villain. He is, in short, a character actor and like most character actors he usually winds up (in the parlance of the type he customarily impersonates) behind the eight-ball.* In The Champ Wallace Beery was a sad superannuated pugilist. In Flesh he is a German wrestler named Polikai, gentle, generous, an easy mark for such a slick girl as Lora Nash (Karen Morley) who is the mistress of a thief (Ricardo Cortez) and the mother of a little illegitimate shaver. The thief undertakes to be Polikai...
...sad story of opera singers and conductors turning fat pay checks into engraved stock certificates, then suddenly finding those certificates worthless and themselves out of jobs, was given to the Chicago Daily News by Emma Redell, large Baltimore-born soprano who sails this week to give 30 concerts in Russia on the invitation of the Soviet Government. Soprano Redell did not invest in Samuel Insull's utility corporations but she told a tale which made the News investigate the circumstances and whereabouts of Chicago Civic Opera artists who did. Said she: "Whenever some one would be engaged always there...