Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goethe. Only ultra-squeamish Goethe admirers belittle the major fact that from early youth to ripe old age Goethe drew what he called his inspiration from a series of women, very few of whom were intellectual and only one of whom he married (17 years after their child was born). Eleven of Goethe's women are named by the Encyclopedia Britannica which emphasizes that he had many another. Last week, addressing young U. S. females at Barnard College, Professor Wilhelm Braun cried: "The charm of Goethe's matchless personality is explained not by the universality of his genius...
...transpacific flight. Just to make it more difficult, the playwrights have the journey begin at Old Orchard, Me. That such a feat could be accomplished without refueling is explained by having the heroine (Margaret Sullavan). mention "the new carburetor" with which the ship is equipped. When the youth gets back home he is, of course, a national hero. He lunches with the President, is made a colonel in the reserve flying corps and runs into a rich and comely lion-hunter (Catherine Dale Owen), not a bit like Anne Morrow. It looks for a time as though the valiant aeronaut...
...deadens his individuality and imagination, was the larger problem of whether great paintings should be copied at all. Familiarity does breed contempt. Mona Lisa is undoubtedly a great painting, but two generations of post cards, meat calendars, candy boxes and gift shoppes have spoiled it for the youth of this century...
Died. Chancellor John ("Chauncey") Olcott, 71, Irish tenor; after eleven years of pernicious anemia; in Monte Carlo. Introduced as a singer by the late R. M. Hooley, he played his first dramatic role as a Spanish youth in Pepita or the Girl with the Glass Eyes at the old Union Square Theatre in Manhattan. After singing in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pinafore and Mikado, he studied in London, emerged the professional Irishman of "Mother Machree," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "A Little Bit of Heaven...
...Jordan) is the daughter of a charming but besotted Southern gentleman (Lewis Stone). His suicide and the inherited alcoholism of her brother are enough to make her drink shy. She has an even better reason. In Manhattan, where she finds her brother drunk in a hotel, she meets a youth (Robert Young), whose father, like her own, is inebriate. Because of Prohibition, the father (Walter Huston) drinks raw alcohol in large quantities. It drives him so wild that he beats his wife to death. Dorothy Jordan and Robert Young are drawn together by their mutual hate of alcohol. When they...