Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaging characters on the political stage are two young Boston blue bloods. Robert F. Bradford, now 35, is the son of the late famed Surgeon Edward Hickling Bradford in direct descent from Pilgrim Father William Bradford. Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, 31, is a son of the famed liberal Unitarian minister, Samuel Eliot, and grandson of the late, even more famed Harvard President Charles W. Eliot...
...room of a shabby urban household is Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), retired for 35 years because he decided one morning 'that working was no fun. His daughter, Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington). writes plays because someone once delivered a typewriter to the house by mistake; his son-in-law (Samuel Hinds) manufactures fireworks in the basement; his granddaughter, Essie (Ann Miller), studies ballet with a ferociously impecunious Russian (Mischa Auer); and the assorted camp followers of the Vanderhpf-Sycamore menage pass their time playing the xylophone, experimenting with false faces and training pet birds. Thus when Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur...
...With the New York situation thus temporarily solved, General Manager Connolly's first concern became Chicago, where the profitless morning Herald & Examiner was stumped by the sprawling domination of Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune, and the evening American was suffering from the sprightly competition of onetime Tribuneman Samuel Emory Thomason's tabloid Times...
Died. Captain Samuel A'Court Ashe. 97, onetime (1879-94) publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer (now owned by Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels), Confederate veteran who always frowned when the word "Yankee" was used in his presence; of old age; in Raleigh...
...acting five parts at once in one of their screen plays, generally giving the impression of being possessed of a legion of March hares. But when Boy Bruce Lester meets Girl Marie Wilson, an inclination to dawdle sets in. Both versions of Boy Meets Girl were written by Bella & Samuel Spewack. After much thought last week on the question, Was the play better on screen or stage? critics came to no concerted conclusion, felt sentimentally inclined to favor the Broadway version...