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...With "Ebb Tide" and "Double Wedding" the University currently presents a perfectly balanced program. In the former, ostensibly a Technicolored South Sea melodrama, Hollywood makes excursion into the realm of the tortured mind. The latter comprises an easy to take William Powell and Myrna Loy combination of slapstick and witty dialogue...

Author: By M. F. F., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Ebb Tide" illustrates psychological processes in the souls of five lives at ebb tide in the Southern Pacific. At its climax the two lowest by dying heroically save themselves from being dragged out to the sea, point the way for two others, hero and heroine, to make peace within themselves, and consign the ultimate villain to eternal low tide amid the highest physical comfort allotted to any of the quintet...

Author: By M. F. F., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Taking the negative, the Harvard debaters, Lawrence F. Ebb '89 and Phil C. Neal '40, claimed that compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes was undemocratic, costly, and unacceptable to labor, as the telegrams from Lewis and Green demonstrated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUSTRALIAN DEBATERS LOSE TO CRIMSON 3 TO 0 | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

...Crimson team composed of Lawrence F. Ebb '39 and Phil C. Neal '40 will face the visitors in an encounter, which will be broadcast over radio station WNAC at 3 o'clock. The topic will be on the adoption of Australia's system of labor arbitration for the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUSTRALIAN VISITORS TO DEBATE WEDNESDAY | 12/9/1937 | See Source »

...brings his role under the control that distinguished his work in British films (Rhodes, A Woman Alone). Pug-faced, whimsical Barry Fitzgerald, Hollywood recruit from Ireland's Abbey Players, mugs too, but mugging, reckless shadow boxing and a cinemaddiction to strong drink are the Fitzgerald stock in trade. Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer). "As long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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