Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal finance during four years as vice president and director of American Cyanamid Corp., then in December 1937 he resigned to become principal of McGill University in Canada. His administration was successful, but not altogether happy for Lew Douglas. He was too far from the U. S. political-economic scene. Last week he was offered, and promptly accepted, a new job: president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, effective January 1. As head of the fifth largest insurance company (assets: $1,399,427,496), he will not only be able to use his genius for economy, but will...
...marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice, however, mother and son rally around after pop has had his ears pinned back, seem resigned to living happily with him ever after...
Author West starts off well, with wit, a nimble imagination, shrewd slants on the social roots of Hollywood's crackpottery. But well before the last scene-a world première which turns into a savage riot-his intended tragedy turns into screwball grotesque, and groggy Author West can Barely distinguish fantastic shadows from fantastic substance. At a similar stage of Tying to get Hollywood on paper, William Saroyan before him merely folded his arms, admitted with rare humility that Hollywood had given him "the smiling heart of an idiot and the good nature of a high-class phony...
Expecting to see thousands of curious citizens attracted to the scene of the configuration, President E. C. K. "Peggy" Read was disappointed at the small turnout. Posters advertising their latest issue had been glued to the walls of the building, but only a few by-standers noticed the garish broadsides...
...fire engines arrived at the scene in time to discover small wisps of smoke curling out of the basement window of the Lampoon building. Upon entering the cellar, the smoke-eaters quickly stamped out the blaze. The only casualty suffered occurred when one of the firemen stepped on a discarded gin bottle, slipped, and fell on a beer-can opener...