Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the Federal Theatre staging of Gerald Cornell, Frederic Hughes' "Life's a Villain" gets its first run anywhere at the Repertory Theatre this week. This play is one of these divided things which never quite decides what it is to be, social commentary or romantic comedy. The major theme of rich boy meets poor girl--or poor rich boy meets rich poor girl--has class overtones occasionally, but only every so often. Usually it is just the amusing and quite classless angle which is stressed, though sometimes the play seems to consider itself as a social...
...undergraduate Field of Concentration, or the building upon courses already established. Each suggestion has measurable validity; each is open to sharp criticism. And the question as to what extent the teaching of journalism can be divorced from actual newspaper experience cannot be disentangled from the main theme. Then, too, the will's phraseology must be kept in mind. Even today it is possible to see the loose constructionists and the strict going to the mat about the problem of just what constitutes "the promotion and elevation of journalism...
...notice or answer Exile Trotsky, but Stalin did address himself to a different school of outside critics. Many of these are Socialists, Liberals and Democrats vaguely sympathetic with some Communist aspirations but on the whole suspicious. They know that Soviet propaganda has for months been grinding on the theme that "this is the most Democratic constitution in the world," but, although it grants universal suffrage for the first time in Russian history, they have wanted to know whether it also restores freedom to organize various political parties or leaves all power in Russia still in the grip of the highly...
...That the theme of news-pigeons in Rothschild, the semaphore in Lloyd's-recurs in Producer Darryl Zanuck's major works is not entirely accidental. Famed for his knack of translating headlines into cinema, Zanuck sees history as a collection of front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous might sound like a superhuman tour de force. Lloyd's of London, rich in the atmospheric detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business...
...shares by the four-for-one reverse split in 1931. If the present reorganization plan goes through those 25 shares will become 12? shares. Those shares will, however, be worth about $16 each on the basis of last week's price for the old stock. For the oddest theme in the RKO story is that while its finances went from bad to worse, its position in the cinema industry showed astonishing improvement. In booming 1929, RKO was hardly more than a promotion. Today it is a first-flight producer, distributor and exhibitor and showed a profit...