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...some 50 famed legitimate stage stars, including Helen Hayes. Walter Hampden. Willie and Eugene Howard, Jane Cowl, Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord, Fred Stone, Eugenie Leontovich, Ethel Barrymore, and such oddities as Author Sinclair Lewis in his own It Can't Happen Here (Cohasset, Mass.); Accordionist Phil Baker in Idiot's Delight (Dennis, Mass...
...medical question that arose in Washington last week was whether to let a pinheaded (microcephalic) little boy grow up to be an idiot or to take a chance of making him normal by the drastic operation of splitting and stretching his skull. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Delehanty Vincent Stuart Jr. found that Alden Vorrath's mind & brain were normal for his two-and-a-half years. However, occasional convulsions seemed to indicate that the skull had hardened abnormally and was cramping the child's growing brain...
...theatre; only Eugene O'Neill in drama and George S. Kaufman in comedy rate higher. Four of the five have won the Pulitzer Prize: Howard for They Knew What They Wanted (1925), Rice for Street Scene (1929), Anderson for Both Your Houses (1933), Sherwood for Idiot's Delight...
Most successful Hollywood producer, as usual, last year was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This year, also as usual, MGM convened before its rivals. Pictures about which MGM salesmen heard most in Hollywood last fortnight were Kim, co-starring Freddie Bartholomew and Robert Taylor, and Idiot's Delight starring Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands...
...Idiot's Delight" is crammed with characters as well as comment. Suffice it to say that every role is brilliantly filled: the raving Communist whom the Italians have to shoot, the fat German scientist who decides to turn from his cancer cures to the invention of a new and deadlier gas, the pitiable little pawn of a waiter who went out resignedly for the Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous...