Word: shand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careers remains a sort of unfading matinee attraction. It is cleverly "human" without being even slightly real. Its little golden nugget of truth is heavily coated with all the familiar Barrie chemicals-romantic fancy, sentimental charm, playful humor, terrifying coyness and thick Scotch burr. And in creating plain Maggie Shand, whose wit and wisdom were the making of her priggish husband's fortune, Barrie was practicing all Maggie's guile on the opposite...
What Every Woman Knows still has pleasant and amusing scenes along with irritating ones and a few the moths have been at. Last week's production suffered most from the inadequate, unwinning Maggie of Hollywood's June Duprez, gained most from the keenly humorless John Shand of Richard Waring...
...Grant Matthews has ego as well as earnestness; he wobbles as well as walks chalk. Involved with a lady newspaper publisher, he has to hurry back, as a prospective candidate, to the wife who still loves him. Cleverer and stronger-minded than he is, Mary Matthews, like Maggie Shand in Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, does for her husband what he fancies he is doing for himself. State of the Union is almost as much marital comedy as political comment...
...backstroke saw Princeton's Tom Shand loaf his way to victory, without competition, in the strictly mediocre time of 1:39.1. Princeton also won a victory with Doran in the high board dive, and its 400 yard free style relay team nipped Rutgers. Representing Harvard, John Watkins, Ossie Morton. Barnes and Eusden qualified for the final only because Amherst's team disqualified by missing a turn, turned in a better performance with the chips down, to place third behind the two New Jersey colleges...
Final--Won by Shand (Princeton); second, Eastburn (Amherst); third, Mott (Navy); fourth, Merrow (Bowdoin). Time...