Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom's special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and goddesses in his Ring of the Nibelungs; he and his wife Cosima were also openly antiSemitic, believed and spread the racial nonsense preached by Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Yet Wagner himself was perhaps what Nazis call non-Aryan. He may have been the son of a supposedly part-Jewish actor named Ludwig Geyer. Last week this old contention, long pishtushed by German Wagnerites, was bolstered by new evidence...
Likewise, Yale appeared to good advantage in the first half against Cornell at Ithaca on Saturday night. The Elis trailed by only two points at the intermission but in the second half, Jim Bennett and Sophomore Bill Stewart led an irresistible attack...
...male stars, an all-out production, $175,000 for the screen rights, $75,000 for her services as an actress. M. G. M. ponied up gladly after its bright young Producer-Writer Joseph Mankiewicz put together an acceptable trial script. It further offered that amiably stringy young man, James Stewart, plus Cary Grant, whose $137,500 fee was paid directly to British war relief...
...masses coal company executive (John Howard). Embarrassingly present is her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), a Main Liner to the last tweed, whom she divorced two years before out of disgust for his alcoholic habits. Haven has brought along a reporter from a picture magazine (James Stewart) who represents the author's conception of the antithesis to well-mannered privacy-journalistic prying-but whom Tracy comes to think of as pretty "yare...
...this high-priced maladjustment is terribly funny, terribly upper class. No one could have written it better than Playwright Barry, who has written it often (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, et al.}. No one could have adapted it better than pink-faced, pink-thinking Scenarist Donald Ogden Stewart. Both writers learned the proper inflections of the polite in the best clubs at Yale. Woven into their saga of the supertaxed is a thorough discussion of snobbery, from which they spring to the conclusion that it is possible to have money and social position and still be nice. Converted to this...