Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bowery (Twentieth Century). For his first production since leaving Warner Brothers last spring, Darryl Zanuck did what any smart producer might have tried but what very few could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before...
Harvard contributes the two leading articles in the "Atlantic Monthly" for October. W. Y. Elliott, head of the Department of Government, "a twentieth century son of the nineteenth century Liberals," points out in "This Economic Nationalism," that Dean Donham and J. M. Keynes have overlooked the drastic political and social results of the policy of isolation that they have been so strongly advocating. He warns us that we are headed for more unemployment if we attempt economic isolation without submitting to dictatorial methods. Because of Congressional "meddling" the economic nationalism of the past twelve years has led us to desire...
Although his loss would be a great one were it only for his work in the Fine Arts, he was also known for his brilliant contributions to literature; he was particularly interested in medieval and twentieth-century writings. In recent years Professor Porter developed a special interest in Ireland, its art and its literature. He was a poet as well as a scholar...
...extremely unfortunate that this picture at the University Theatre presents such a one-sided view of Amazons; such a terribly glittering twentieth-century burlesque of an old fable which had its really tender and artistic sides. Modern society views the overwhelming dominance of women in this story of Hippolyta and her court, or in the play of Lysistrata, as unnatural to the point of ridiculousness, and so in the "Warrior's Husband" we have a ridiculous farce, bubbling with mirth and Broadway wit, but none the less, reminiscent of an Elk's pageant in a small town...
Baby Face (Warner) is notable mainly because, when the Hays organization ordered portions of it changed, it caused one of the studio rows between Darryl Zanuck and Harry Warner as a result of which Zanuck quit Warners, formed a new company called Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. to release films through United Artists. A morose and timidly salacious study of the life and loves of a saloon keeper's daughter (Barbara Stanwyck), it shows her flirting to get a job in a bank, rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having...