Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best seems to be C, D, and G. Neither C nor D, on the Renaissance in Italy and in northern Europe, will be given this year. G, a first half year course on Oriental Art, is very interesting. Mr. Sickman, a new man, will replace Mr. Warner in this course. Fine Arts A and B are on Ancient and Medieval Art respectively. A whole year is too much to spend on either of these subjects, and results in over-emphasis on Greek vases in the former and on manuscripts in the latter. The lecturers in these two courses, Chase, Koehler...
Crime School (Warner Bros.) is a mug of cinema mulligan stocked with chunks of such seasoned staples as James Cagney's The Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind...
...First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic...
Women Are Like That (Warner Bros.) dawdles drearily with the problem of getting Actor Pat O'Brien off a Scotch-&-soda diet and back into the advertising game. Droopy Actress Kay Francis models a few notable Orry-Kelly costumes, drops innumerable...
...officers are chosen. Those elected were George F. Bateson, Hugh F. Colvin, Alfred J. Dickinson, Jr., Schuler C. Rober, Darwin C. Brown, Edwin Ewing, Jr., Charles M. Williams, William Dibble, A. Kendall Oulie, Paul S. Bowers, and William J. English. A tie between Alfred E. Kurts and Hugh F. Warner will be decided shortly...