Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Molnar was making deft fun of royalty in The Swan; in One Romantic Night Director Paul Stein is using royalty in its familiar stage function, as atmosphere. The result is only fair in spite of Lillian Gish's skill in making real the wistful, adolescent princess who loves a tutor and marries a prince. The trouble is that perhaps she never loved the tutor; such was the anxiety of the adapters to provide a happy ending that the spectator is left undecided. When handsome Conrad Nagel as the tutor drives away and Miss Gish elopes with Rod La Rocque...
...just come in with "young Potts"-Douglas Newton Potts, 19, a promising, first-year man, holder of an ?80 scholarship, leader of a Cambridge dance orchestra. As tutor and pupil entered, they were faced by Detective Sergeant Willis of the Cambridge Police, standing with his large feet well spaced on the hearthrug, as in all proper British crime dramas...
...porter did not retreat. On tiptoe he approached Dr. Wollaston's door, listened, heard not a sound, then took heart to peek round the jamb at a dreadful scene. Shot through the heart, the tutor lay crumpled in a chair. Shot through the head, Pupil Potts sprawled dying on the carpet, a pistol near his right hand...
Mystery. A whole day passed with the authorities completely baffled. They did not know even the reason why Tutor, Detective and Pupil had assembled in one room. Dean Eric Milner-White of King's College repeated bleatingly to one newspaperman after another...
Those who will fill these positions next year are: Sterling Dow '25. Instructor in the department of History: S. E. Gleason '27, Instructor and Tutor in the department of History: C. A. Pendar 2L; James Ried 1L; C. Van Tyne '29, at present an instructor at Groton School: W. R. Harper '30; G. M. Ferguson '26, at present instructor in History at the University of Maine: A. R. Sweezy '29; and W. J. Bender...