Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another highly publicized entry in the Santa Anita Handicap is Victor Emanuel's four-year-old Statesman, sent from England especially for the race. Last week, making his U. S. debut, Statesman finished last in a field of eight...
Crime and Punishment (adapted by Victor Trivas & Georg Schdanoff; Wolfson & Sherry, producers). Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches...
...Socialism into the new State which he promised. Where Hitler got the Socialist planks for the "National Socialist" platform from the hated German Marxians, Louis got his ideas from Louis Blanc, French radical. And to carry out his ideas, Louis had to banish recalcitrant politically-minded poets like Victor Hugo, even as Hitler had to banish writers like Lion Feuchtwanger. Some people, indeed, have seen in Louis Napoleon the father of the modern "planned State," have even called him "the first Fascist...
...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...
Following the interview with Whipple, McEnary held a consultation yesterday afternoon with Victor H. Kramer '35, President of the Liberal Club. According to Kramer, the discussion centered on "Mr. Hearst's tactics for ascertaining the extent of secret communist propaganda in Harvard College, and I assured him that Mr. Hearst is entirely misinformed if he feels that there are any members of the Faculty who are plotting the violent overthrow of the American Government. I also assured him that the Liberal Club is in no way communistic or fascistic and that it abhors all forms of violence and bloodshed...