Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police wanted to make one more test. Samples of Tommy's blood, of the Thompsons' and of their two children back in Dayton were sent to the University of Michigan hospital, where a doctor ran them through 132 heredity tests. Through the night and until late the next day the Thompsons waited. Then a detective broke the news: "The blood tests show positively that Tommy O'Neill is not your...
Unlike composer Hindemith, last year's Norton Professor of Poetry was a Doctor of Literature, Cocil M. Bowra...
...problem posed is that of a colored girl who is able to pass for white. she has been trained as a nurse in the north, and has fallen in love with a white doctor. When she returns to the South to escape the obvious complications of her attachment, she is bequeathed the estate of an old lady whom she nurses and later wins a court fight to gain possession of it. Her choice is between working among her people in the south, or going off with the doctor, who has pursued her, to start life anew...
...credible. But along the way, the credibility is gradually eased out, and the final dramatic moment does not ring true. The courtroom scene in which Pinky bests the representative of intolerance is a bit too close to a sudden triumph of righteousness for comfort. Pinky's meetings with the doctor are probably the most weakening factors in the plot; especially in the final encounter, the conflict between love and principle is just too much for the actors to carry...
William Lundigan as the ardent Northern doctor looks heroic, but his script and stage directions unfortunately give him little opportunity to displayed acting ability. Ethel Waters, portraying Pinky's grandmother, surmounts the Aunt Media-type casting to achieve some fine moments...