Word: talents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wednesday evening tournaments, any member of the University is eligible to compete after submitting to a preliminary examination of his talent. The handicaps range all the way from the minus eight super stars to the plus 13 duffers. About 32 men have taken part in each of the competitions held...
...self-portrait of the only son of the late Captain Robert Scott and the celebrated English sculptor who is now Lady Hilton Young. From his father, who died returning from the South Pole, Peter Scott evidently inherited a determination to be strenuous, and from his mother a plastic talent beyond the ordinary. His book contains reproductions of 51 of his oil paintings, 16 of them in color, and a youthful gunning testament drawn largely from "my wildfowling diary." Few people have painted anything so well as Peter Scott paints the birds he knows so well. Grey lags, pink-footed geese...
...bobbing curls of the little tot, "Dimples" differs from the previous parade of Temple screen monopolizations only in the Shirley has an opportunity for real acting in her portrayal of Little Eva's death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Admirers of the wonder child will be pleased with the talent the youngster displays in this sequence, and those who are not so impressed will appreciate the able acting of Frank Morgan as the grandfather, and he anties of Stepin Fotchit...
...three leading ladies in "Ladies in Love," Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, and Janet Gaynor all have their romantic experiences in the setting of Twentieth Century Budapest. Faced with an overwhelming galaxy of some of Hollywood's best talent, the audience is whisked with bewildering rapidity from one love story to the next. The difficulty in keeping the proper men connected with their respective females increases with each succeeding scene and the introduction of Simone Simon to further complicate the plot is the last straw...
...invective, when opponents called each other "tippling, nasty, vicious crews." "plucked gawkys," cowardly "herds of scalded hogs," "Cockatrice Eggs, which breed Serpents to poison the People." Subtitled Pioneer in Propaganda, it is the first book of a Junior Fellow of Harvard College, marks the appearance of an engaging, readable talent in the field of political biography where such qualities are usually lacking...