Word: jason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved out to live in the country in Sherman, Conn. He and his brother, Henry Anton Steig, pruned their fruit trees, stacked the dead wood in a shed. One day William picked up a chunk and whittled it. Thereafter all male carvings were known in the family as Jason, female carvings as Tessie...
...before it begins gesturing at its stagy moral, Of Human Hearts does a patient, workmanlike job of reconstructing life in an early 19th-Century Ohio River outpost. Of Human Hearts follows the lives of a stalwart, righteous circuit rider (Walter Huston), his wife (Beulah Bondi) and his son Jason (as a boy, eleven-year-old Gene Reynolds, as a young man, gangling James Stewart), who revolts against a life of hand-me-down clothes, unreasonable re- straints, two-fisted godliness. When Jason goes to war, the action, divided between battlefield and pasture, falls into great maudlin chunks. Teariest scene: President...
Good friends are Methodist Dr. Edgar Allan Lowther, who went to Temple in 1931 from a pastorate in Oakland, Calif., and Congregationalist Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, who used to be Calvin Coolidge's pastor in Washington, and was brought to San Francisco in 1933 by a potent Californian, onetime Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Methodist Lowther is tall, hawk-faced, spare, a liberal and a pacifist. Congregationalist Pierce is plump, jolly, a Wartime chaplain (see col. 2), American Legionary and 100% Republican. While Dr. Lowther was struggling to make a go of his hotel-church. Dr. Pierce...
...presented by O'Brien the story is just so much drivel. The entire picture falls flat simply because the part is a delicate one to handle, and he fails to lend any plausibility to it. Humphry Bogart is excellent as Phillips, but Sybil Jason fails to arouse much sympathy as the child...
...even the Warner Bros. publicity department could straightfacedly recomend "The Captain's Kid", for the adjectives in the advance notice begin with "it is said to be". Miss Sibyl Jason is one of the cute baby actresses who set back the public with winsome appeal. Although more natural and healthy than la Temple, she is ill served by her studio. The great Duse herself would fail to delight if continually coddled by an old sea captain like Guy Kibbee. A summer resort is the scene of mild melodrame concerning a pirate treasure hunt and two gangsters up from the city...