Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love an Actress is a flimsy trifle in the Molnar manner, translated from the Hungarian of Laszlo Fodor. It is directed and produced by Chester Erskin, the man who put the final and triumphant touch of grimness into Subway Express and The Last Mile. The same note of grimness has unfortunately thrust itself into I Love an Actress, producing an effect not unlike that of a wispy Marie Laurencin drawing surrounded by a baroque gilt frame. Joe Mielziner has done sets that are too gorgeous for any actor to be funny in front...
...Tarleton was born & raised in Manhattan but his family were impoverished Southern gentry. Kip watched his father drink up the profits of the family hotel, drink himself into his grave. Kip's mother made him swear never to touch a drop, and Kip was willing. Kip was always anxious to do the right thing. When he got a job as assistant superintendent of a big Long Island estate and found that his boss was taking a commission on purchases, he informed his employers, was snubbed for his pains. He met Maggie May (also Southern though not so impoverished...
...dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences-next most important position to that of the president of the University. This week the Harvard Board of Overseers meets to elect a successor to the late Clifford Herschel Moore, who died in Cambridge last month (TIME, Sept. 14). "Persons in close touch with the University," said the Globe, admitted that the Board would elect Kenneth Ballard Murdock, 36, Harvardman (1916), associate professor of English and master of Harvard's new Leverett House. Not only that: Professor Murdock, it was said, is being groomed to succeed President Lowell, who might resign (though...
...special Freshman edition of the Crimson which may be found today at Memorial Hall and at the Crimson Building on Plympton Street brings to 1000 newcomers to Harvard the important events of the opening of the College year. In order to keep in touch with University and undergraduate activities and opinions every member of the Class of 1935 should take advantage of the Crimson. Subscriptions to the undergraduate daily will be accepted today at Memorial Hall and at the Crimson Building...
...short, haven't you some sort of job that will enable a youngster to keep on in school instead of entering the already overcrowded ranks of wage-earners? A telephone call to any of the colleges in and around Boston will put you in touch with somebody who can give you what you need. --Boston Herald...