Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Condition of Clarence E. "Chief" Boston '39, operated on for a ruptured appendix on Saturday, was reported as "only fair" at a late hour last night. The football player still has a special nurse taking care of him in the Baker Memorial Hospital...
After undergoing an emergency operation for a ruptured appendix, Chief Boston, Varsity quarterback for two seasons, is reported as "very sick" and his condition listed as "fair" in the Baker Memorial Hospital last night...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, George F. Baker Professor of Economics will be the guest of honor at the weekly Adams House dinner tonight and will speak afterwards on "The Sources of Anti-Democratic Tendencies in the World of Today." Only members of Adams House are invited to attend...
Unquestionably one of the finest films to visit Boston in many moons, Josephine Baker's "Princesse Tam-Tam" had its American premiere at the Fine Arts yesterday afternoon. Miss Baker, who returns to her native land in celluloid. left St. Louis in the early Twenties to become and to remain the cabaret sensation of Europe. Like most of her ilk, she cannot sing, but she can dance, twisting her dusky body into unbelievable contortions in time to primitive rhythm. Though it smacks more of Harlem than of Africa, locale of the picture, her "La Conga" dance alone is enough...
...actually Miss Baker has been very much subordinated by the cynical theme of the film. Though never oppressive, the picture paints a striking contrast between the wholesome stupidity and naive sensuality of Africa and the futile artifice of Europe with its snobbishness, adultery, and puerile attempts to understand eternal secrets. The skillful direction of Edmond Greville and a finished performance by the veteran Albert Prejean put this across. M. Benoit, at the cameras, deserves great credit, as much for shots of delicate irony as for scencs of beauty and simplicity. English subtitles make this rare film available to everyone...