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...both the bonus and the burgee. Last November when he reached the age of 60 he was supposed, like all Cunard skippers, to be retired on half-pay for three years, to be pensioned thereafter for life. In line for both bonus & burgee was the Mauretania's Captain Reginald V. Peel, who last week was transferred to the Olympic to succeed Captain John W. Binks, retired (TIME, Dec. 31). Cunard Line had agreed before the merger to retire its captains at 60, to ease congestion in the promotion of deck officers. But White Star got tired of paying...
Living Dangerously (by Reginald Simpson & Frank Gregory; Shuberts, producers). In this British importation, a London physician named Norton (Conway Tearle) breaks off his partnership with unscrupulous Dr. Pryor (Percy Waram) because the latter has been selling narcotics. Thereupon Dr. Pryor runs to the Medical Council with the tale that Dr. Norton has been unprofessionally intimate with his wife (Phoebe Foster). Since Dr. Norton loses his right to practice, Mrs. Pryor is disgraced and her husband subsequently sent to jail, the chief characters of this piece appear to be living not dangerously but miserably...
...June in January," "With Every Breath I Take") that make Here Is My Heart such agreeable entertainment. Aimed at intelligent audiences, written with wit, directed with a proper sense of style by Frank Tuttle, it has the immense advantage of having such performers as Roland Young, Alison Skipworth and Reginald Owen in subsidiary roles. As bedazzled, picayune Prince Nickolas, Young reveals, in urbane monosyllables, his scheme for crooked trading in used cars to replenish the empty royal treasury. When they learn that the hotel waiter has been seen stuffing bills into their wallets, the other members of the royal family...
...painter of the city is Reginald Marsh who was born 36 years ago to Muralist Fred Dana Marsh in Paris. As a tousle-headed boy (he is now almost bald) he went to Lawrenceville, later to Yale. In spite of his very proper education, Artist Marsh thinks "well bred people are no fun to paint," haunts Manhattan subways, public beaches, waterfronts, burlesque theatres for his subjects. The Metropolitan and Whitney Museums thought enough of his work to purchase examples...
Along with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...