Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cast care away and carol along on the Carawan" cry the Associated Harvard Clubs, "a special stream-lined deluxe train, a whole Harvard train for whole Harvard men painted CRIMSON (inside and out)." Whereupon Harvard graduates are sent careening down to New Orleans for their forty-second annual meeting. What could be nicer...
...Daniel A. Buckley scholarships for the whole academic year were won by Bernard Barber '39, Harry M. Johnson Jr. '39, and James M. Robertson Jr. '39. Sotirios C. Papafranges '39 received the Aristides Evangelus Phoutrides scholarship, and the Stoughton scholarship was awarded to Harry Pollard...
...Durbin voice. Those who cringe at the mere mention of sentimentality are not gong to enjoy "Three smart Girls Grow Up," for there are the inevitable "intimate" bedroom scenes, tear-besmirched love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall Street begwig, is constantly funny, and Deanna herself, in the course of straightening out her sisters' affaires du coeur, upsets the conventional applecart on many a delightful occasion. Add to this the music--which, this time, included "The Last Rose of Summer...
...Victor McLaglen; the same vicious tribesmen, now worshippers of the goddess of blood; the same melodramatic story--these form the skeleton of "Gunga Din," Hollywood's latest version of "The Lives of A Bengal Lancer." Yet about this skeleton has been built the flesh of humor, and into the whole has been breathed the breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling's celebrated water-boy; and Mr. Kipling himself even pops into the picture on occasion. The film...
...LOEWS STATE AND ORPHEUM--One must concede Mickey Rooney a moral triumph for toning down his elaborate facial contortions, but his tolerably effective portrayal of "Huckleberry Finn" does not save the film as a whole from being a tedious, uninspired production. What little zest remains of the hilarious Mark Twain story is submerged under the Negro Jim's long harangues flash of humor arouse the spectator's interest, as, for example, when the King and Huckleberry give a delicious parody on Romeo and Juliet. But such antics are all too infrequent, and even the melodramatic steamboat-race climax fails...