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...other guests with macabre little quips like "I have known many four bottle men . . ." and ''Considering your distinction and age it is surprising that Fate has not introduced us before." There are moments of embarrassed silence around the ducal dinner table as Prince Sirki's behaviour grows increasingly enigmatic. The most painful arrives when the Duke has to reveal the true identity of his guest. This is after the Prince has made it clear that he is in love with chubby Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the dreamy fiancee of young Corrado de Catolica. When he becomes a shadow...
...vitality at the end of Jezebel's second act: against one of Don ald Oenslager's superbly romantic sets. dressed in an inverted fountain of white lace, her voice flat with excitement and despair, she celebrates the fact that a duel has resulted from her bad behaviour by singing a gay song with her slaves. The fact that she was born in Bainbridge, Ga., 29 years ago and can still remember her Southern accent has aided Miriam Hopkins to impersonate unhappy samples of Southern womanhood. Since her last stage appearance, in The Affairs of Anatol, she has played...
...outmoded scientific materialism, unaware that in the last 40 years there has been the greatest scientific revolution since Copernicus. In this new dispensation "matter began to thin away into the completely spectral thing it has now become. . . . The notion of substance had to be replaced by the notion of behaviour. . . . Determinism has broken down, and the principle of indeterminacy has taken its place. There is great difference of opinion at present as to whether this is a genuine discovery, or as to whether it is a merely temporary technical device." Einstein thinks "strict causality" will some day be reinstated; Eddington...
Other events of the meeting included a talk by P. W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, on the subject "Anomalies in the Behaviour of Solids under Pressure," and the examination by members of the Society of Harvard's new Physics laboratories, which have tripled the facilities for research in the department...
Setting aside, then, all hysterical sentimentalizing usually dragged out in a discussion of a Dartmouth man's obligations to Dartmouth College, it remains that the individual is obligated to his community. And if the College is unable to rely upon a gentlemanly code of behaviour from its undergraduates, it is justified in its capacity as an educational institution, to instill this code by sawed-off shotgun procedure...