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...addition to the genial Mr. Baxter are Madge Evans, the irrepressible James Dunn, Sylvia Froos, operatic John Boles, Nigel Bruce, Arthur Byron, and an attractive curly-headed youngster named Shirley Temple...

Author: By H. R. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

Less obviously acted than most mystery movies, "Murder in Trinidad" manages to baffle until nearly the end. To discover a ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting...

Author: By J. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/24/1934 | See Source »

...controversy brewing over the type of art to be used, the only person, in the capital who seemed to have no fixed opinions on the matter was Postmaster General Farley. Conservative Architects William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich who designed the building favored a classical allegory. But Edward Bruce, tireless head of the Public Works Art Project and himself a painter of some note, wanted realism. Stormed he: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building!" Aligned with Mr. Bruce and helping to create a deadlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ladies in Cheesecloth | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...this year's Freshman team, ten men have already been selected as the first string lineup. They are Nicholas J. Bounakos, John A. Carter, Alan J. Dimond, Bruce H. Fernald, George D. Hartstone, William H. Howe, Jr., George D. Keller, Daniel F. Keyes, Laurence B. Levy, and Merrill B. Rubinow. Most of these men have had experience in the game while in prep-school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUADS ARE NAMED FOR VARSITY, '37 LACROSSE | 3/28/1934 | See Source »

...from Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, is the last of four men who have come to the University to give lectures in this course. Captain Albert W. Stevens, the head of the course, and Captain Dache M. Reeves were the first two lecturers to conduct the classes, and Captain Bruce C. Hill, the third lecturer, will have completed his work by the end of this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lieutenant Phillips To Be Geography 36b Instructor | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

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