Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barbary Coast (Samuel Goldwyn) is a gaslight and "hoss''-pistol melodrama of San Francisco in the gold-rush days, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, directed by Howard Hawks, acted by Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. That it somehow fails to justify expectations is due largely to the fact that the story, about an underworld tsar who constitutes himself protector of a lady croupier in his gambling house and then shows that his heart is in the right place by giving her up when she falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector...
...next cage roams the forlorn J. Ramsay MacDonald, "after three years as a Peripatetic premier, now here and now there, wandering like a lost soul over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder...
...Tuesday night, October 22, the annual meeting of Freshmen in the Union, at which Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '09 will speak on Harvard history, will be held under the auspices of the Union and the Memorial Society...
Developments and the conclusion of the Callaway Socks Case were rather tame yesterday as George Ryan, petty thief caught in 52 Mt. Auburn Street on Saturday, October 5, pleaded guilty of larceny of property from Samuel R. Callaway '36 and was given a suspended sentence of two years in the house of correction...
...Roosevelt will broadcast a message from the Caribbean as the concluding speech of the evening. These talks have been sponsored by the Herald Tribune, and the program tonight concludes the series which has included dozens of notable speakers, including Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Norman H. Davis, Sir Samuel Hoare, and many others...