Word: bartlette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Bob Bartlett speaks Monday evening in Phillips Broks House under the sponsorship of the Harvard Grenfell Association, at 8 o'clock...
...Bartlett, who has recently returned from his eleventh voyage to the Arctic, is recognized as the Dean of Northern explorers. He was captain of Peary's ship which failed to reach the Pole in 1905, and again four years later was Captain when Peary was successful...
...second part of his speech-and the most powerful in emotional content-is a really gorgeous exhortation. It is filled with quotable sentences. The next edition of Bartlett's book of quotations may have several lines from this Philadelphia speech. As for instance, This generation has a rendezvous with destiny or Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference...
...where her father (Nigel Bruce) has settled down to teach music. This intention, constantly delayed by the financial troubles of the Forrester family, is finally thwarted when Aunt Louise and Uncle Tony move in with their out-of-work opera troupe. The troupe's star and manager (Michael Bartlett) decides to present an opera written by Tony for the amusement of Kentucky Derby crowds. Success depends upon getting Soprano Marian to lend her voice. She refuses. How the handsome manager-star finally wins her support in the lavish spectacle solves both her amatory and the family's financial...
...BARTLETT...