Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well. It was a very huge suecess." They will sniff at the mock-heroic episode in which Malcolm Cowley smote a Paris cafe proprietor for Art's sake, thus gathering a two-fisted reputation that later scared bookish Critic Ernest Boyd. Nor will they be moved by his version of the long-drawn-out suicide of Harry Crosby, whom he regards as a symbolic figure. But left-wingers will find much to interest them, much to applaud. To plain readers Exile's Return will seem a well-documented, often amusing but essentially serious case history of a minor...
...your Letters Supplement No. 6, issued April 16, appeared . . . a revised version of the Lord's Prayer...
...commission. Senator Glass, chief proponent of the change, won the President's approval of it. After the bill had passed the Senate, Federal Trade Commissioner Landis persuaded the President to change his mind. The President last week announced that he now was in favor of the House version. To carry out his wishes, Chairman Fletcher of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee did not name Senator Glass and Senator Wagner to places in the conference committee to compromise with the House. In wrath. Senator Glass resigned from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee. The whole Senate felt it had been injured...
...willing to east aside all your realistic prejudices and keep you tongue in your cheek during the movie version of the comic strip. "Harold Teen," you may be amused, Often the worldly and sage Harvard man can gain a kind of indirect pleasure by disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that...
...Warner, who played Sorrell several years ago in the silent version, gives the role an understanding treatment. His portrayal is fully in accord with Deeping's characterization. Kit is the attractive, wholesome son, possibly of the type that is called the backbone of his country. The fact that it is a relief when he is not swayed by his wealth-loving mother shows that the picture has been thoughtfully directed. Lew Raymond has not only seen that "Sorrell and Son" is well-handled, but has provided sets which are in keeping with the spirit of the story...