Word: sticklers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forsaking der Baron Munchausen, appears as Rubbish, the foreign-born Hollywood director whose fame it seems is based on a movie he once made about a boy and a girl and a dike. Rubbish, we discover in the first scene, is filming the Battle of Lexington and, always a stickler for accuracy, the scene is filmed in Lexington, Mass. There live such citizens as Buddy Ebsen--you guessed it, he's the Yokel Boy--Lois January, Judy Canova and other individuals who by the middle of the first act have all wandered out to Hollywood and are more or less...
...Stillman, Wareham George S. Goldstein Frances Sanders, Hartford, Conn. Eli Goldston Barbara Cohen, Brookline Richard W. Greenebaum Bernadetta Handrahan, Brockton Roger C. Griffin Jr. Eleanor Mastin, Needham Ralph W. Grover Carol Spahr, Bellerose David Hadden Katharine Claflin, Belmont William F. Haneman Elizabeth Breed, Chestnut Hill Arthur S. Harrison Louise Stickler, Hartford, Conn. Melvin S. Hathaway Margaret Chamberlain, Hartford, Conn. David Hodgdon Edith Russell, Boston Guy, Holman Bulah Ratliff, New York John W. Huling Barbara Sherry, Worcester Morton B. Jackson Mary Brown, Cleveland Richard Jackson Martha Turner, Cambridge William P. Jacobs Alice Corregan, West Roxbury Marc Jaffe Marjorie Walker, Philadelphia Webster...
Before making the picture, Producer Goldwyn, a stickler for detail, landscaped 540 California acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...
Gabrilowitsch himself she depicts as good-natured and talkative, a shrewd but generous man, a violent stickler over restaurant bills but an open-handed charitarian. When the U. S. entered the World War, he promptly arranged to give half his income to the Red Cross. Yet he was so enraged at being overcharged ten cents in a railroad diner that he spent days brooding and writing letters of protest to the company...
Chemistry 4 is on Quantitative Analysis. Baxter is a good lectures he is a stickler for precision. Both it and 44. a loss thorough half-year course on the same subject intended for pre-medical students and non-honors men, are centered around the lab, which takes 10 to 18 hours a week...