Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilbert Stevenson, Yale '36, of Polham, New York, one of the associate engineers in the steam automobile enterprise, which has its headquarters in Newton, guided the new experimental, two-cylinder model through thick Cambridge traffic with four Harvard men hanging on as ballast...
...Victor (Gaumont British) is a braw and bracing cinema story directed by versatile young Robert Stevenson (Nine Days a Queen, Non-Stop New York), based on Alfred Ollivant's Bob Son of Battle. As the dour old sheepherder, whose heart is as black as his dog, Black Wull, cinemaudiences may find squat Actor Will Fyffe's burring phrases difficult to understand, his meaning never. Veteran Actor Fyffe's renown as a folksy character is one of the brightest in Britain. His career as an entertainer started in his teens, when in one night he played a gravedigger...
Wyeth, who won the Lee Wade award, delivered the address given by Robert Emmet in his own defense when he was sentenced to death for treason. McAllester, winner of the first Boylston Prize, recited excerpts from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Christmas Sermon...
Robert Louis Stevenson never saw a moving picture. He might not have liked Hollywood's version of his Treasure Island (1934). But he would have had a fit at what somebody had done to his unsexy story in the new Soviet film: transformed Cabin-boy Jim Hawkins into a pretty blonde. The guilty somebody was Boris Z. Shumiatsky, Will Hays of the Soviet cinema industry. Last week Boris Shumiatsky was out of a job. Other charges against him: 1) that in attempting to freight "a bourgeois adventure story" with significance he had introduced the Irish revolutionary movement without considering...
...late Actor Frank Bacon (Lightnin'). Director Bacon joined the Navy at the start of the World War, was commissioned as a photographic expert, now holds the rank of lieutenant-commander (reserve), spends vacations on navy cruises. Ebb Tide (Paramount). The tall tale, originally told by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, of the adventures of three beachcombers in a stolen schooner never bore up very well under literary scrutiny. But in the kindlier glow of cinema Technicolor, Ebb Tide's whoppers become leisurely implausibilities, and the story's calm unreality is disturbed only by a thumpingly real...