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With the appointment of Ohio State's Stahl to fill the baseball vacancy left by the resignation of Fred Mitchell, speculation continues as to who will take over the one remaining mentor gap, that in hockey. Coach Joseph Stubbs '20, leader of the puckmen for eleven years, resigned last season...
...Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Director John M. Stahl (Letter of Introduction, Back Street, Magnificent Obsession) last week addressed a request for a series of U. S. postage stamps exhibiting the likenesses of cinemactors. Said Director Stahl...
...turns out to be a calamitous flop; and the hero of the story is not her erratic young fiance but an aging, bibulous matinee idol to whose portrayal Adolphe Menjou lends the Barrymore mannerisms that have become traditional for such roles since The Royal Family. These, and Director John Stahl's watchful, vivid treatment of situations which would have been threadbare with less careful handling, give the picture exactly that air of conviction in which most such fables are deficient...
...worst break the Berlin Stock Exchange has suffered under Adolf Hitler shrank the prices of leading issues by some 7% one day last week. A prime German blue chip, Vereinigte Stahl Werke (United Steel Works), dipped for the first time in several years below its par of 100 marks per share. None doubted that without the strict Nazi control of German finance the break would have been even worse. Although prices later recovered perhaps half their losses last week, as the Reichsbank strongly supported blue chips, the mood of the average German investor had turned deeper blue...
Around this as a basis, Director John M. Stahl has built an intensely absorbing story the story of the love of Bobby Merrick for Mrs. Hudson. Sad but not depresing, emotional but not overdone, the story holds the audience spell bound with an artistry rare in these days of colossal film "epics...