Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage version of Craig's Wife, produced by Rosalie Stewart, climaxed the career of Actress Chrystal Herne. The screen version exhibits to good advantage the talents of two other ladies. Her brilliantly vitriolic portrayal as Mrs. Craig is likely to be a turning point for Actress Rosalind Russell, heretofore noted for her smooth handling of light comedy roles. The work of Dorothy Arzner, Hollywood's only woman director, is equally distinguished for giving pace without apparent effort to a picture that might, with less expert treatment, have seemed pedestrian...
...Vagabond sighs and puts down his book. "A Motion Picture Version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet." He turns to his bed and tumbles sleepily in. All night he stands beneath her balcony and sighs--and sighs...
...Book-of-the-Month Club's Bible, edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates, proved to be a fat, well-printed volume with wide margins, connected narrative passages and texts arranged in prose and poetic sequences rather than in the traditional numbered chapters and verses of the King James version...
Arrest That Woman (by Maxine Alton; A. H. Woods, producer). A large but dowdy production with a numerous but inept cast, this unprofessional melodrama appears to be merely a rough preliminary sketch pointed toward a later and more finished film version. Several of the roles are undertaken by minor Hollywood actors, whose performances are about on a par with what is expected in a Works Progress Administration show. A reformed prostitute shoots her high-born but estranged father when he refuses to give her money for her true love, who has been forced to steal $1,000 to send...
Well represented by prints of old college scenes, the graphic arts contain some of the rarest of the items to be seen. The two earliest known ones are being shown: the Burgis view is the only version in the first state, and is extremely valuable, and the Paul Revere prospect, said to be the only copy in a private collection. Revere also contributed several fine pieces of silverware. While few people realized it, one of Paul Revere's biggest sources of income was his manufacture of false teeth. While none of these are on view George Washington had a fine...