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Doubtless the most original trait of American cinema is the sly metamorphosis of familiar novels from their printed pages to the screen. Many who would be frightened away by its true-story title will be relieved to know that "I Married a Doctor" is a neat scenarioizing of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." Stylized, the plot is of a young woman rich in parts who comes to be the wife of Dr. Kennicott, and must breast all the bigotry of Williamsburg, a mid-western town. She is unfortunate in her open treatment of the men, secures the whole hearted...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/8/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; Secretary of State Hull will address a gathering in Washington's Pan American Union Building, built with Carnegie funds ; Pittsburgh will honor its onetime first citizen; more than 2,000 U. S. colleges, schools, libraries that Carnegie endowed will unveil his por trait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...editors of the "Advocate" have taken the only step open to them under the circumstances. That they should suffer from a puritannical trait that has been the curse of American art since its earliest days is patently unjust. The zealous and alert Mr. Leahy has accomplished another in a series of travesties of law enforcement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL TRAVESTIES | 10/23/1935 | See Source »

Cruelty is a very serious trait in a child and should, say's Dr. Kanner. "be examined and treated with no lesser care and expertness than one would examine and treat pulmonary tuberculosis or rheumatic endocarditis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Naughty Children | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

This international hermaphrodites is not a now family trait. The son of Johann Georg von Wendel, who fought for the German Ferdinand III blossomed late Christian de Wendel, who was a follower of Charles IV of Lorraine. For a good period of years the family retained the prefix De; Christian's grandson, Ignace, was the true founder of the family's fortune--and this curiously enough, began when he established at Creusot the works that the Schuoiders were later to buy. When the Bastille fell Iguace's lose relations with the menarchy drove him from the country. His properties were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE MEN | 5/24/1934 | See Source »

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