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...shellfire; its cast includes Louise Dresser, who was in two Manhattan cinema openings last week (see A Ship Comes In.) Miss Dresser may be depended upon when she assumes a mother role. She looks not unlike Irene Rich and shares with her the distinction of most able protagonist of domesticity among cinemactresses. As the mother of Buddy Blake, aviator-aspirant, Louise Dresser is properly maternal when her son fails to pass a test, is properly proud when he does pass as a hero...
...that John Geste, survivor, is even the hero of the present yarn, but it is for his sake that Otis Vanbrugh, chief protagonist, braves countless risky episodes, Arab raids, hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals...
Died. John Downey Works, 81, onetime (1911-17) insurgent Republican U. S. Senator from California, one-term-for-Presidents protagonist; in Los Angeles...
...central fact militating against Candidate Hoover is that many people cannot understand what he stands for. He is no forthright protagonist of an ideal or program. He puts forth no clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell...
...produced drama. From this angle 'Faust' has been approached. In Mephistopheles, who of course is the central figure of the story. Goethe was portraying the evil in man's own nature and the denial of morality and conscience, in the opinion of Rosing. This conception, depicting him as the protagonist of the negative to all human aspirations to good and beautiful giving, has been developed by the American Opera Company. In the opening scene, for instance. Faust is discovered in his study, a scholar of middle age, a victim of nostalgia, despairing over the futility of the search after knowledge...