Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campaigning for one's relatives or their party, or their opponents' party, is different. Most sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, are glad to do that. In the present campaign, many a famed descendant has been active or at least visible. Grandson Arthur Smith Jr., aged 30 months, sang "Sidewalks of New York" for the "talkies" last month. Son Arthur Smith, a blond young man of 21, last week took up speechmaking. He asked support for the "courageous and honest leader of the Democratic Party" and said: "You know I am the luckiest boy in the world to receive my first...
James Roosevelt, Harvard junior, second son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been practicing football in the afternoons and stumping Massachusetts for the Brown Derby in the evening. The evening that his father accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, James Roosevelt was speaking on the Democratic side of a bi-partisan radio program. His partner was Miss Sarah Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson, National Committeeman and Committeewoman of New Hampshire. Their opponents were Maxon H. Eddy, Yale football captain, and Miss Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes...
...many Sem Bennelli's* L'Amore is the most perfect of librettos. It is the story of Blind Archibaldo who gained a kingdom and lost his soul. He has a valiant son, Manfredo. and the fair Fiora for his son's wife. He had chosen her himself, brought her as hostage from the enemy's country, but she came loving the young Prince Avito and kindness could not make her a faithful wife. Blind men see but Fiora did not know. His still eyes saw her first at dawn sending her lover out through the terrace, then at twilight...
...spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants to pass a bar of chocolate to his baby...
Wells Root (Yale 1922), onetime theatre critic for TIME, wrote this cinema of the adventure of the son of a janitor and a girl from a Wild West show in the shadow of Holder Tower. Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) directed it. Like loyal sons of Eli, the author and director asked permission to shoot the college scenes on their own campus but were turned down by New Haven authorities, annoyed by the many unauthorized pictures which have shown Yale men as debauchees...