Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John D. Wild, assistant professor of Philosophy, will give the fifth lecture in a series dealing with the "importance of the Christian World View in our civilization" at 7:30 o'clock this evening in Emerson...
...flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent it on to wild acclaim. In similar warmhearted fashion he undertook Brother Rat because it was a play about youngsters written by youngsters (John Monks Jr. & Fred F. Finklehoffe, V. M. I. '32). It had been returned by 31 other managements. The Abbott touch converted it into a Broadway hit, a $150,000 film property (Warners...
...brightly-written Vina Delmar script into the gayest screen comedy the season has seen. In the process he establishes Irene Dunne as one of the top comediennes of current cinema, keeps Columbia's reputation for mature comedy (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Theodora Goes Wild) at its brightest. He also has his say on divorce, the double standard...
...stepped from opera and musical leads (Show Boat) to cinema character roles that carried her from youth to grey old age (Cimarron, Show Boat), put her foot down last year, demanded comedy. Her astonishing hoe-down interlude in Show Boat indicated her aptitude for lighter things. Theodora Goes Wild gave her the first full-length try. The Awful Truth establishes her with her peers, Claudette Colbert and Jean Arthur...
Producer Samuel Goldwyn's wild-eyed press-agentry dispatched a telegram in his name to Mr. Mohamed Amine Youssef, Egyptian Minister in Washington inquiring rates and conditions for advertising on the Pyramids to be used "in a dignified manner to announce the coming world release of The Adventures Of Marco Polo...