Word: formulae
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...often graduates wish they had kept their textbooks to brush up on a language, to find a certain formula, to locate that line of poetry...
...Richards wishes to test the formula...
...program of its latest production issued by the Dramatic Club, there seems to be quite a stir about something called "Our Policy". In view of the numerous doubts which have arisen over the contents, not to say the existence, of such a formula, documentary evidence of this nature will unquestionably be appreciated. But if adherence to this policy entails, as the most recent efforts of the Club would seem to indicate, the selection of plays merely on the basis of novelty in the most limited sense of the word, then appreciation may perhaps be tempered with regret...
...factory; whose high character and uncompromising ability have made him notable among cinema directors. They hired to prepare the film manuscript Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory, Saturday's Children) and George Abbott (Broadway, Coquette). These three sat down not to dramatize the book, but to translate it. Flouting formula they retained the spirit of the novel...
...Girl Said No (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This comedy, familiar in formula, takes a handsome girl and an irresponsible young man through a series of incidents at the end of which, as a crowning comic twist, he gets the girl. Some of William Haines's antics seem dictated less by fantasy than by pathology, but the consciousness that in actual life any one of his little jokes would be reason enough for his being shot or locked up, stimulates rather than hinders the humor. Best shots: an unnamed player as a frightened waiter who is ordered by his employer to make...