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...fifth in its current series of six productions in Boston, the Theatre Guild has chosen Sophie Treadwell's "Hope for a Harvest" and headed the bill with man and wife, Fredric March and Florence Eldridge. Of the two decisions, the casting one is the happier;-"Hope for a Harvest" presents the spectacle of a mediocre piece of writing admirably exploited within its narrow limits by a popular cast...
Laura Z. Hobson wrote A Dog of His Own in 45 minutes. It is a whimsical, ingratiating tale of a five-year-old dog lover named Mikey, who was very happy with one dog and mistakenly thought he would get happier and happier as, one by one, his foolish aunt gave him nine more...
...February were mid-December, Clark Hodder would be a lot happier. Right now he figures the hockey team has reached the stage of relative perfection which it should have attained at about the time when Santa Clauses and Christmas seals were rampant...
...cannot say, as you can well understand, that this is for me a completely happy birthday. These are not happy days for any of us in the world. Shall we say that American birthdays this year are being made at least happier than they would otherwise be because all of us are still living under a free people's philosophy? ... It is because we believe in and insist on the right of the helpless and the weak and the crippled everywhere to play their part in life - and survive...
...youth has been given a definite purpose. They have been given an ideal greater than themselves,--false as it undoubtedly is,--which has liberated them, which has given them a sense of exhilaration. In spite of regimentation and the loss of individual freedom, German youth is in many ways happier than ours. They have something to live for. It is also true that this very fact constitutes the greatest challenge to our democratic existence. Unless we can match this purposefulness of German youth, unless there are loyalties in us greater than theirs, all our battleships and tanks and airplanes will...