Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Superbly photographed, "The Prisoner of Zenda" does not devote itself to love and intrigue alone; many scenes are salted with a humor that is as dashing as the theme. Anyone with red blood in his veins can find a splendid opportunity for escape from the humdrum ways of a modern world by visiting the University...
...highly unfortunate that the University has decided to keep Harvard's major games off the air, as many graduates and undergraduate will be very disappointed, and a splendid chance to augment the Endowment Fund has been unwisely passed...
This week the gentlemen and ladies of Charleston, S. C. turned out to applaud their city's Footlight Players in the same Recruiting Officer, marking the opening of a splendid $350,000 resurrection of the old Dock Street Theatre, made possible by Charleston civic pride, plus FERA, plus WPA. A prettily conceited prologue written by DuBose Heyward, introduced the play...
...since he too has been a master in an English boarding school. The title character is the sort of person who flogs his charges for the sake of discipline, and then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline until three females appear on the scene; the sister of the woman, now dead, whom he should have married, and that woman's three daughters, aged twenty, eighteen, and fourteen. Then...
...credit for cheering herself hoarse at Soldier's Field, but the real culprits will be the people who made her sing La Traviata way back in 1937 when she was only fourteen. In "100 Men and a Girl," now playing at the University, Deanna turns in a perfectly splendid performance in spite of the supporting cast of Adolphe Menjou, Eugene Pallette and Mischa Auer...