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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arrowsmith," played by Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes is a typical movie version of a famous novel. The first half dealing with the young doctor's early married life in a small western town is refreshing, but once he gets into the clutches of the malarial jungles of a Carribean island the story becomes drizzly and melodramatic, and concerns itself mostly with rain and the ravages of the bubonic plague...
Yale University inaugurated its version of the House Plan-seven colleges in costly quadrangles given by Edward Stephen Harkness. Among Yale's new professors are famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing and James Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll of London who succeeds George Pierce Baker in the Drama School. Yale reshuffled its graduate courses, distributing among its professional schools the degrees in Music, Public Health, Engineering, Drama and Architecture which were formerly offered by the Graduate School...
...Beaty, a few floors above his old company. Last week in that office, unlike Mr. Beaty, he had a platoon of stenographers working busily on a campaign to justify his reign. Out to Texaco stockholders and the Press went a 43-page booklet containing Mr. Holmes's version of last spring's boardroom battle and a list of his good works. With it went a letter from a stockholders' committee, asking for proxies for a special stockholders' meeting in October. Mr. Holmes swore that he was not trying to regain the Texaco throne but only desired...
...hours before the Manhattan Press got wind of the Sands Point fracas. By that time Senator Long was in Milwaukee to address the convening Veterans of Foreign Wars. When a New York Sun reporter called the Senator by long distance telephone for his version of what happened, an angry splutter of unprintable profanity came over the wire. Finally from his Milwaukee hotel the Louisiana "Kingfish" issued a statement. Excerpts...
...heart broken when the captain stabbed her husband to death. With much more charm than most British musicomedies-which are inclined to be prim and lazy-Bitter Sweet is notable chiefly for its blonde leading lady, Anna Neagle, a onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made in England, chose her for the leading role in preference to Evelyn Laye or Jeanette MacDonald. Aside from a contract to play the title role in British & Dominion's forthcoming Nell Gwynne and a bad habit of twitching her paws, Anna Neagle...