Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prospective play-writers should not be frightened away by the charge that there is no opportunity for this branch of composition at Harvard. I need only refer them to English 22, for one, in which Professor Hersey not only encourages the writing of plays, but gives several lectures on the subject. During my stay in that course he devoted at least six lectures to a study of the play "Sadie Thompson," both on the legitimate stage and in the cinema, and by reading the Somerset Maugham story, showed how the dramatist had adapted his material. He also made a careful...
...gradation of courses was suggested as a cure for the alleged ills of this branch of the English department. The editor seems to forget a few points. 1. In gaining admission to English 22 and English A-2 (which courses would probably be called the "first" step) the selection would still rest with the instructor; obviously only a part of those applying would have been measured by the English A-1 yardstick. (2) In the three "higher" courses, 12, 31, and 5, the applicant is likely to find a gradation rule a boomerang. As it is now, the instructors...
This odd locution would seem more startling were not the other characters in After Office Hours equally freakish in their mannerisms. The hero, Jim Branch (Clark Gable), is a managing editor who, for no apparent reason, wears a pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high...
...audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines Institute at Augusta, Ga. At commencement time he would put on plays. In return, Headmistress Lucy Laney literally kept him from starving during the rest of the year. She died the day that The Green Pastures...
...expedition which rich, eccentric Templeton Crocker of San Francisco is conducting in the South Sea islands aboard his big yacht Zaca. The news: Gygis alba, a white, gull-like bird, builds no nest for her solitary, mottled egg but plops it neatly into the fork of a slim tree-branch. She covers the egg with her breast but leaves it occasionally to find food. The young Gygis may, during mother's absence, break out of the shell to find itself alone, teetering on a precarious twig...