Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of U. S. citizens claim an interest in the estate of a German-born surveyor named Jacob Baker who settled in Pennsylvania in 1765. Ruling version of the Baker saga is that Surveyor Baker, granted land in Philadelphia, leased it back for 100 years to the U. S. Government. Upon the land the Government built the Philadelphia Navy yards, post office, mint...
...Crackpot Version Sirs: "It's great to be a Georgian," despite even TIME'S publicizing Erskine Caldwell's crackpot version of conditions in the Empire State of the South. Yanks! He gets paid to write that tomfoolery and the paragraph about the two children playing Romulus and Remus to a "dry-teated" hound is tops in the Uncle Tom's Cabin type of journalism...
...precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema-in the interlude which shows Liliom, after feebly attempting to commit first robbery and then suicide, visiting Heaven before he comes back to Earth...
...parts by Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young. The truth is that Ruggles of Red Gap is a U. S. classic which tempts its actors to perfection as inevitably as it tempts audiences to approval. The best that can be said of this picture, the third cinema version of Ruggles, is that, like David Copperfield, it does justice to its original; the least is that no future cinema treatment of the valet who becomes a hero to his master is likely to improve upon its warm perceptive gaiety...
...abridged version to be used on the Leverett House stage next Monday has been devised so as not to jeopardize this noble intention...