Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement of changes in the annual New York Times Current Events Contest which is in another column in this morning's CRIMSON shows that there is a sincere effort on the part of those in charge of it to make it a really significant affair. Although the changes are of minor importance and do not basically alter the nature of the competition, they do clearly indicate that the New York Times is taking more than a purely commercial interest in the enterprise...
...Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care of the acrobat's little boy and keeps his promise through some amusing and a number of saccharine episodes, a love affair, and recurrent Irish-tenor melodies. Best shot: the audience in the Arcadia Opera House. Best song: "Sleepy Valley...
...play itself would cause no exultation. But Ethel Barrymore acts the part of the jaded lovelady of Budapest who meets a sleek male counterpart. Ensues a mutual struggle against sentiment. Even in Budapest it is difficult not to care for the person with whom one has an affair, so after the child is born, a tremulous surrender to the exigencies and joys of affection occurs high in a Swiss chalet. This cycle of repression and catharsis is endowed with the mysteries of personality and feeling by Actress Barrymore, statuesquely assisted by Louis Calhern...
...field, as at the Rotterdam field. Croydon has two steel and concrete hangars, providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Each hangar has overhead cranes to move planes and motors. Back of the hangars are workshops, storerooms. Croydon's administration building is a large two-story affair with a roomy control tower rising above one end. It contains waiting room, telegraph desks, book shop, rest rooms, quarters for police, immigration, customs, airline and air administration officials. From the passenger's viewpoint Croydon, like so many U. S. airports, is far (12 mi.) from the centre...
Last year Coach Wray's men were defeated by Harvard in a triangular regatta with Tech over the Charles River Basin course but the race two weeks from tomorrow will be a dual affair. Cornell did not show up very well at the Poughkeepsie Regatta last June although the crew was leading the field at the mile mark. A return to a period of championship crews resembling the great eights of Coach Courtney's long regime is hailed by the followers of the oarsmen from Lake Cayuga...