Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before an enthusiastic audience of 500 people, Leverett House last night presented its play, "Rio Grande" or "Trouble on the Mexican Border." Some capable actors performed magnificently in this "startling and instructive moral drama...
...other half of the Paramount-Fenway program is "The Last Round-Up," based on Zane Grey's "Border Legion." It would be easy to criticize the plot and the "acting" of the hatchet-faced lass and the Arrow-collar youth who take the leads and whom Paramount Pictures attempt to introduce as "Stars of the future," but to do this alone would give an unfair impression of the presentation. There is action, hard-riding, good scenery, fast shooting, and here and there a hard right to the jaw. Insofar as "The Last Round-Up" is a step back...
...other hand, there are material benefits derived from probation which ought to be preserved, in one form or another. Border-line cases must be made aware of the imminence of their expulsion. Perhaps the most sensible change would be to keep a nominal probation which would cause the undergraduate to be fully conscious of his low standing, yet would in no way materially interfere with his activities. Compulsory attendance at all classes, certainly the most uselessly obnoxious feature of the present probation, could well be done away with, holding a closer check of the probated student's cuts, but abolishing...
...Following Nazi Theodor Habicht's "radio ultimatum'' giving Austria eight days to accept a Nazi Government, the Heimwehr men were being sent to the border where 10,000 men of the famed Austrian Legion were supposed to be ready to invade the country through the narrow valley at Braunau-Adolf Hitler's birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring...
Just over the border in Del Rio, Tex. suave, goateed Dr. Brinkley kept calm. Hurrying his lawyer off to Mexico City he boasted that he would be back on the air in a few days...