Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gorge. This bad weather, which will last until the end of August, will make it impossible to do more than go in to the entrance of the Rishinala where the party will wait until the first of September. Conditions should then be excellent for climbing until about the twentieth when the weather begins to make climbing dangerous...
Under Two Flags (Twentieth Century-Fox). This great-aunt of all Foreign Legion stories was written in 1867 by Louise de la Ramee (Ouida), performed on the U. S. stage by Blanche Bates, in the silent cinema by Theda Bara (1916) and Priscilla Dean (1922). The current version, costly, handsome and overlong, offers a concession to modernity: Gregory Ratoff, as a Legionnaire, says with a thick Yiddish accent: "We're all supposed to be trying to forget something, but there's so much noise around here I can't remember what it is I'm supposed...
...Country Beyond (Twentieth Century-Fox) is a James Oliver Curwood story containing a great deal of snow and a large St. Bernard dog named Buck, which has appeared in Call of the Wild and Little Lord Fauntleroy. More restful to the eye & ear than most cinemanimals, easy-going Buck is antisocial to the point of declining to take sides between his mistress (Rochelle Hudson) and a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (Robert Kent) who has her in custody because she helped her father escape after being caught with stolen furs. When the girl endeavors to mush off through the snow, Buck...
Producers feel, and perhaps rightfully, that they are giving the great mass of theater-goers what they expect. A painstakingly produced picture based on college life as it actually is might be a dismal failure. We college people might not even appreciate it. After all, twentieth century pioneering, especially in the cinema, comes a bit expensive, and the producer, if he wants to stay in business very long, must keep his eye on box office grosses, not on the embittered criticism of a few collegiate purists. He holds his job by the amount of black...
Shirley has two older brothers, Jack (20) and George (17). Jack was given a job in Twentieth Century-Fox's publicity department. Feeling that he was paid solely for being a prodigy's brother, he asked to be sent to Stanford. He was promptly made manager of Stanford's dramatic club. George Temple, now at the New Mexico Military Institute, has not yet been much influenced by his sister's fame, but Mr. Temple's life has been revolutionized. From his modest job in a bank cage, he was elevated to manager of California Bank...