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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first holder of the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for study at Emanuel College, Cambridge University, England, will be Robert Arnold Aubin '21. The award of this studentship, recently established by the Associated Harvard Clubs was announced last night together with other aids and scholarships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD EXCHANGES MEN WITH ENGLAND | 9/26/1924 | See Source »

...Tantrum. Nearly everyone will recall the generously constructed Roberta Arnold of The First Year and Chicken Feed and her voice that twangs like a guitar. She is an anomalously successful actress, having neither beauty, restraint nor reverence for the canons of her craft. Yet she is aggressively effective, recklessly individual. She is Roberta Arnold. You either like her or you do not. Most people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

Through that first act at home, Miss Arnold resembles a series of explosions caught at the precise moment of detonation. She wastes gestures; she talks at the top of her voice, always out of turn; she overacts magnificently?and makes you like it. Thereafter the play runs down a trifle. There are other good performances, notably Will Deming's difficult drunkard. Yet without Miss Arnold the play would be fustian. With her it seems eventful entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...Preston, Eng., a nervous wreck crawled into his bed, refused to communicate with newspaper reporters. This wreck was Maj. Arnold Wilson, promoter of the light heavyweight fight between Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, and "Basking" Jack Bloomfield, of England, in Wembley Stadium (TIME, Aug. 11). Reasons for the Major's breakdown were that his balance sheet showed a loss of some ?12,000; that Tom Gibbons, sailing for the U. S., had instructed attorneys to collect a missing ?8,061 of ?10,000 promised him by the Major: and his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...Prague celebration was a riot of modernistic delicacies. Arnold Schpnberg, Florent Schmitt, Sergei Prokofiev, Ernest Bloch, Arthur Honegger were all well represented by new works, guaranteed to irritate unaccustomed ears. A new composer of unquestioned merit was also brought to light oh this occasion. He is Alexander von Zemlinsky, an Austro-Czecho-Slovakian. His Third, or "Lyric", Symphony was performed; its seven long movements are all built around a single leading motif: the theme of "a man bent on conquest and adventure, to whom love is but an episode in a life of combat and struggle." Zemlinsky used a baritone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Prague | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

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