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There is one conception that we would like to deflate before we up stakes over the interlude, a conception voiced by De Musset to the effect that "tout aux tavernes est au fait." Broadly, the phrase suggests that anything goes at a public house, or colloquially, an hotel...
Inspiration (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The decadent, artificial perfume which, springing from La Dame Aux Camelias, saturated with its nostalgia the boudoir literature of four decades, is revived strongly for Greta Garbo's third talking picture. She is a studio model, mistress of many men, who falls in love with a colorless young socialite. Robert Montgomery leaves her when he finds out about her bygone irregularities, but after a break he takes her back again. When his family decides that it is time for him to marry, Garbo goes away. The way this tale is told...
...public. The members of the quartet are: Wolfo Wolfinsohn, first violin; Alfred Pochon, second violin; Nicholas Moldavan, viola; Gerald Warburg, violin cello. The concert will include the following program: Quartet in G major, Opus 76, Number one, by Haydn; Adagio sostenuto, by Wilhelm Friedman Bach; "La file aux cheveux delin", by Debussy; Tarantella, by Schelling; Quartet in E minor ("Ausmeinem leben") by Smetana...
Also confirmed was last year's announcement of the world première of a new Camille, by Mary Garden's protégé and Mr. Insull's onetime office boy, Composer Hamilton Forrest (TIME, Nov. 4). Like Verdi's La Traviata it is based on La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Unlike Verdi, Composer Forrest has employed jazz songs and themes, changed the story to bring it "up-to-date," employed dialog described as "stark in its reality...
...looking forward with pleasure to the dedication of the Centre de Preparation aux Affaires on October 13, when we will have with us Dean Donham and Professor Doriot of the Business School. We hope the new school will succeed, as you do at Harvard, in moulding business men by giving them actual cases to study, thus preventing many later failures from inexperience...