Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director Garson Kanin, whose specialty is making silk purses out of sows' ears. A onetime Broadway actor and assistant to Broadway Producer George Abbott, Director Kanin started his cinema career as an odd-job man for Sam Goldwyn in 1937, when he was 24. Last year RKO somewhat skeptically allowed him to direct a B-picture called A Man to Remember, which was equipped with a no-star cast and budgeted for a mere $119,000. Kanin turned it into an excellent picture, followed it up with a good job on Next Time I Marry, produced...
Manhattan kids last week had their first chance to go coasting since Thanksgiving. In its puckish fashion the stock-market also went tobogganing. Somewhat to the confusion of Wall Street, which was generally bullish, prices continued a slide that began with the new year. The Dow-Jones industrial stock average got down to 146.52, barely above the November...
...Spring Madness," the companion film, oddly enough concerns two Harvard undergraduates, yes Harvard, gallivanting about a girls' college campus in confused but somewhat amusing style. One of the Hollywoodized Harvard students, who is referred to as "the editor of the Crimson," finally gets Maureen O'Sullivan. Which is better than dean's list...
Meanwhile, last week the harassed Prime Minister experienced two more blasts against his foreign policy. Newspapers in the north of England and Scotland, somewhat removed from the personal influence of Government members, scored Mr. Chamberlain for allowing President Roosevelt to be the democratic leader who has thus far delivered the strongest attack on the dictator states...
...career of marriage was the debut held last week at the White House (see above). But very different in principle from such debuts are other debuts-a handful of which now take place every year-which provide a glittering preview of young women who are launching on a career somewhat like that of a cinema star, the career of Glamor Girl. Outstanding debut of last week in Manhattan was a party that had all the earmarks of a champagne christening of such a career...