Word: wellman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Properly impressed by the dramatic fact that people who were children in 1903 had barely reached middle age by the time Franco's bombers were pounding Barcelona, Director Wellman, who helped concoct his own story, tried to reflect the whole bright saga of flying through the prism of a conventional triangle plot. When Pat Falconer, Scott Barnes and Peggy Ranson are moppets, sailing kites in imitation of the airship Peggy's inventor father is trying to rig up in his workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland...
...shortcomings of Men With Wings are not due to Director William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman's lack of qualifications for his job. A Lafayette Flying Corps pilot during the War, he launched aviation as a major cinema subject with Wings in 1927, thereafter rated as one of the industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none...
...even better illustration of this belief is Wellman's own career. Respectably reared in quiet Brookline, Mass., he left high school to sell chocolates and woolen goods, failing miserably at both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when...
...Varsity hockey, David G. Halstead, soccer and lacrosse, George McT. Kahin, member of the Spanish Club, Henry D. Minot Jr, Phillips Brooks House, William R. Pearmain, member of the Instrumental Club, Daniel S. Roosevelt, member of the Flying Club, James O. Seamans, member of the Mountaineering Club, Prescott H. Wellman, Jr., Robert L. Wendt, CRIMSON photographic board, and Richard F. W. Whitemore, Ski team and Dramatic Club...
...line-ups: CRIMSON LAMPOON Phillips, s.s. c.f., Sanger Bennett, s.s., p., r.f. s.s., Wainwright Baker, 3b. c., p., Wentworth Reynolds c. p., c., 1b., Herter Edgerton, c.f. 2b., K. McIntosh Hall, r.f., p., 3b., c., Evarts Wellman, 2b. r.f., Hale, Garland R. McIntosh, Smith, l.f. l.f., Fiske, Redfield Griffin, 1b. 1b., Kettell...