Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis MacNeice, noted young English poet, will give a reading under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. A. contemporary of several of the younger English writers including W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, MacNeice graduated from Oxford and is now teaching at Bedford College in the University of London...
...although "Candida" is a play of cosier and snugger England, safe from air raids and the Red menace, there is nothing cost or snug or dated about the bearded Fabian's timeless masterpiece. Nor is there anything dated about Cornelia Otis Skinner who looks almost too young for thirty year old Candida...
...that he could not fill the roles, or that he did not enjoy them; he had all the equipment of a leading actor, better sets and a better leading lady than most. But he invariably missed his cues. He was born too early and died too late, married too young and learned too easily, succeeded too soon and then waited too long. Frémont, as he appears in Allan Nevins' biography, had no sense of timing...
...Twentieth Century-Fox) will be a revelation to cinemaddicts who have been led to believe that all great figures of the 19th Century were just Tyrone Power in period costume. Alexander Graham Bell turns out to be Don Ameche without a haircut. However, Loretta Young, who is getting to be almost as much of an historical figure as Tyrone Power, appears satisfactorily as Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, a deaf girl who inspired Bell to continue with his invention and not resume his teaching of elocution...
...virtue of a clever script, her own unforced gaiety, and the really remarkable 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...