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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other important cinema company. This is doubtless due in part to Vice President & Producing Chief Irving Thalberg's "two star" system for feature pictures. Grand Hotel gave Producer Thalberg a chance to enlarge upon his system to an extent which other producers hoped would prove a reductio ad absurdum. The cast of Grand Hotel is the most celebrated, the most expensive in cinema history. It would surely have included other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars (Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Marie Dressier, Robert Montgomery, Marion Davies, Buster Keaton, Jackie Cooper, John Gilbert, Ramon Novarro) if there had been a few more...
...immediate apology to the host of admirers of Massachusetts' own "David I," that perfect example of masculine pulchritude. Only quick action (how about a "cover" picture?) can rectify such an error ad absurdum. Massachusetts' McCormack may be grateful that the typographical error was no worse, it has limitless possibilities...
...editorial entitled "Quem ad finem, O Catalina . . ." in this morning's CRIMSON had a peculiar interest for me, even though my Latin fails me. It so happens that I was host to Mr. Boyd-Carpenter and his fellow-debater during their two day stay in Cambridge. I may add that they came to me by that most uncertain of all routes--a letter of introduction...
...banking system with State currency issued against cotton and wheat; 3) abolition of ad valorem taxes on homes and farms; 4) maximum income taxes on "excess salaries of corporation managers"; 5) impeachment for Federal judges who abuse the power of jurisdiction; 6) conscription of money as well as men in the next war; 7) full payment of the soldier bonus; 8) coinage of "enough gold and silver to meet normal demands"; 9) tariff reduction. Adopting this platform, delegates loudly declared that "the great battle of 1932 is America against Wall Street, special interests and predatory wealth." Governor Murray loosed...
...International Style as opposed to "modernist" architecture eschews all decoration and ornament. "Functionalism" (a word overworked ad nauseam) is its watchword. Such beauty as their buildings possess is dependent on fine proportion of individual units, clever use of color, and the technically perfect use of materials. (Cement is sometimes poured in glass-lined forms to give it a marble-like polish.) Light is its fetish. Houses look more and more like aquariums. The four apostles of the International Style are two Germans, a Dutchman and a French Swiss, as follows...