Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Fred Astaire has proved conclusively by this time that he can make a high grade picture without the aid of Ginger Rogers. His friendly face, his dancing agility, and above all, his capacity for natural acting are bound to put across any production, no matter how fantastic its plot or how mediocre its songs. Not that the plot of "Broadway Melody of 1940" is fantastic as musical comedy plots go. Fred Astaire and George Murphy appear first as the tap-dancing team at a small and not too swanky cafe. There they are seen by agent Frank Morgan, who spots...
Today Caney Creek Community Center has a grade school, high school and junior college. Its $250,000 plant (43 buildings) is the result of contributions from Wellesley and Radcliffe College alumnae, of various women's organizations, who also pay its $50,000 yearly running expenses. It has electricity, but no telephone, no telegraph. Its post office is Pippapass, Ky.-in honor of New England Browning Society donors. In honor of Kipling, its headmistress's office is labeled...
...Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian or Indian. Not until 1929 (three years after Greenway had died, four years before his widow became a Congresswoman) did Dave Goodrich, chairman of the board of B. F. Goodrich & Co., reflect again on Cuba's mineral possibilities...
Married. Comedienne Grade Fields, 42, "darling of the Maginot Line"; and Monty Banks, 42, onetime silent cinema comedian, now producerdirector; both for the second time; after a flight from reporters who spotted them when they applied for a marriage license under their real names, Grace Stansfield and Mario Bianchi; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...writing, generally deft, hovers too often between good prose and bad poetry. But as the record of an inquisitive intelligence set down with humor and clarity, the diffuseness is of minor importance, and the sharp observation counts. Summer's Lease is an unusually rich and readable second-grade book...