Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unperturbed, H. R. H. pursued his task of inspecting the squalid East End, a job Edward of Wales used to do before passing it on to his younger brother. Last week the mob grew less & less appreciative, finally broke a British law which provides that while Parliament is sitting no demonstration shall take place within one mile of Parliament...
Secrets of the French Police (RKO), secrets wholly unlike those of the U. S. police, form a pleasantly lurid fable in which the Paris gendarmery is faced with the improbable task of snaring a rogue whose nastiest proclivity is for turning his enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever...
Some slight injuries to possible starters makes a pre-game selection of the men who will answer the opening whistle a hazardous task, but most of the veteran players will probably get the call against the Crimson. Bob Chase stellar Bruin quarterback, will be surrounded by the pick of the backfield aspirants, including Captain Bill Gilbane at fullback and probably Gilmartin and Allen in the wing positions. The quantity of good available secondary players will make the starting backfield a mere selection of the men who can carry out Coach McLaughry's assignments to best advantage...
Boston, it becomes increasingly evident, likes to insure in its theatre censors a fresh and unprejudiced approach to the task of keeping pure the morals of playgoers in the Athens of America. The retiring stage censor of the Hub, John M. Casey, received his training for the post as trap drummer in a vaudeville orchestra, while his newly-appointed successor, twenty-eight-year old Stanton M. White, has approached the dramatic muse through a career as "art photographer" and county pay-master. Still further assurance of his fitness for the post of thespian Cato in Boston is found...
...great for any Harvard man, tutored in the traditions and history of the College. The University should commission Frank Buck, the explorer, to penetrate the great Meldweson, famous card catalogue of the Berlin police, and from thence bring back a bespectacled Prussian, who would be equal to the task of putting the "Announcement" in an orderly, alphabetical and numerical arrangement, with cross-references to related courses...