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Different people have different hates about the movies. Some say the great old actors are vanishing from the scene, and in their stead are appearing a group of highly publicized, incompetent "starlets"; the John Barrymores are giving way to the Ann Sheridans. Home blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Holywood, that the movie-going public...
Learn in Asia. Calvert methods are a mixture of many traditions. Earnest, friendly Headmaster Edward Woodman Brown (Princeton '23) is no "progressive" educator. A tall and talented tennist, he looks older than his 42 years. He stresses discipline and English composition in a special Calvert up-&-down script. Brown is proud that Calvert has helped make life bearable for U.S. children in crowded Jap concentration camps like that in Shantung's Wei-hsien. The Calvert method was used there for six months by Rochester's Mrs. Frederick G. Scovel, wife of a medical missionary. Repatriated...
...time it reached New York, the idea had begun to wear out, and the portraiture had dulled. Now that Hollywood has gotten hold of it, the script has failed to delineate character at all, and the entire picture has come to resemble a meeting of the Hollywood chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. There are times when you can't see the characters for the waving of the flag...
Former members have gone into widely different fields. Richard Aldrich '25 has become a producer; Kenneth Macgowan '11 has tried his hand at script writing for 20th Century Fox; Robert E. Jones '10 has become a well-known designer and designed and lighted the sets for Paul Robeson's "Othello...
...Dismas never got full credit for his virtue (despite Christ's explicit "Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise"). acted as a one-man press bureau for the Saint. Father Edward Dowling, close friend of MacMurphy and editor of Queen's Work, is collaborating on the script with Writer Casey Robinson...