Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tilt today will be only a seven inning affair, but most of this year's diamond aspirants will be given a chance to show their worth, because as yet the make-up of the traveling squad for the spring vacation trip is undetermined...
...Crimson nine man squad, and the Army swordsmen. The tournament promises to be packed with thrills with three now champions to be crowned and four topnotch universities battling it out for team honors. The absence through graduation of most of last year's men virtually throws the two-day affair into three wide-open races...
...Love Affair (RKO Radio). Leo Mc-Carey, who directed this picture, is one of Los Angeles' few major contributions to the cinema industry's personnel. Son of a sports promoter named Thomas ("Uncle Tom") McCarey, he went to U. S. C., studied law, played on the rugby team. After college, Leo McCarey tried work in a San Francisco law office, quit to tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That...
Difference between a mere director and a producer-director is that a director's ideas about cinemanufacture are subject to discussion, modification, veto by his producer, but a producer-director is edited by no one but himself. In addition to credit for producing and directing Love Affair, McCarey gets credit, with Mildred Cram, for the original story. As close to a one-man show as any $850,000 picture can be, Love Affair is pleasantly free from the assembly-belt characteristics that mar many . Hollywood products. It also exhibits the need for the merciless editing that few directors...
...University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department; for the former would know more surely where they stood, and the latter might avoid in the future such embarrassments as the Walsh-Sweezy Affair...