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...principal figure of the story is Bachelet, the soldier's father, admirably played by Mr. Thomas Shearer. In the prologue we see him as an obscure but sincere character--still a clerk after a lifetime in his office spent watching his contemporaries promoted over him by the use of influence. The war and its injustice are intolerable to him. Then the news of his son's heroic death comes to him, and everything seems to have gone out of his life. We next see him ten years later--his grief has gone, his son is no longer a human...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

...Elkins '29, F. R. Giddens '28, G. C. Holbrook '30, Willard Howard ocC., Waldo Howland '30, C. B. Lakin '30, W. W. Lord '28, Arthur Mills '29, Joseph Morrill '28, H. H. Newell '29, A. W. Richardson '28, H. H. Richardson '30, W. G. Staltonstall '28, W. L. Shearer '29, R. A. Stewart '30, H. G. Swann '28, John Tudor '29, and W. T. Wetmore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI SEXTETS RENEW RIVALRY IN ARENA TONIGHT | 12/8/1927 | See Source »

...officers are the following, chairman, F. L. Felton '29; vice chairman, W. L. Shearer '29; secretary treasurer, Edward Dane '29; executor-at-large; R. S. Holden '29. Meeting yesterday afternoon in the club's temporary headquarters at 52 Mount Auburn Street, the executive committee, composed of the above men, drew up plans for speakers, banquets, and undergraduate elections for the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPUBLICAN CLUB CHOOSES OFFICERS FOR CURRENT YEAR | 11/22/1927 | See Source »

Married. Norma Shearer, 22, famed cinemactress; to Irving Grant Thalberg, 26, executive director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; in Hollywood. The ceremony was prolonged by the bride's unfamiliarity with responses in the Hebrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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