Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Eric and Erwin were back in Watertown and glad to be there. Poppa Loeffler, a veteran of the last war and still young enough to be called again, was still in Germany. So was Momma Loeffler. So were the other 150 Wisconsin families...
...frustrated, able man who once was close to the President. By letting the Saturday Evening Post serialize 100,000 of his 190,000 words, Raymond Moley did not make things any better with his outraged successors in the Janizariat. They belittle it as the garrulous grousing of a "shellshocked veteran," note the overtones of its author's bruised ego. But they do not question its essential facts. In the Moley gallery...
...used the seasoned acting personnel of the French theatre. For The End of a Day, a photographic plate recording with sharp sensitivity the emotional atmosphere of a home for retired actors, Director Julien Duvivier (Poil de Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed by polished, twinkling Louis Jouvet, a director of the Comédie-Française and one of France's most illustrious actor-managers. Beautifully played to the last bit, The End of a Day is a glowing and worthy tribute to its profession...
...tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge's, a forehand like Vines's, a backhand like nobody's and a service like sixty to nudge the tired veteran Bromwich (a year his senior) out of the tournament...
...Lyons Veteran Reporter...