Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education, and particularly on the existing system of College entrance examinations, comes from Dr. Little, foremost iconoclast of outworn tradition. The former president of Maine and Michigan Universities aims his shaft at an extremely vulnerable point when his discussion is confined primarily to the College Boards. A rising chorus of dissatisfaction is baying justly enough at the antiquated methods by which the secondary school graduate is forced to cut his way into college...
...program for this evening is as follows: 1. Veritas March Dinsmore On the Pier Goldman Banjo Club 2. Johnny Harvard Chorus of the Bacchantes Gounod Vocal Club 3. DeW. Stetten Jr. '30, magician 4. Frasquita Lehar Waltz in A Major Brahms Mandolin Club 5. J. S. B. Archer '30, Tenor Soloist 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange A Little Kiss Each Morning Woods Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Ein Karleksmatt 1 Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Harvard Club Special R. G. Edwards '31 and G. W. Briggs '31 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah...
...prison for shoplifting. Between her first arrest in 1914 and her last in 1930, she had spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...
Harriet Hoctor, one of the few musi- comedy dancers who is still billed as premiere danseuse, justifies the title by leading the chorus, all attired in crimson riding habits, through a maze of green hurdles. And there is Ruth Etting, a pensive blonde who sings one of the best tunes Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ever wrote ? "I Still Believe You.'' Children will hugely enjoy Simple Simon; their elders may profitably join them...
...years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan, Minor Cooper Keith (founder of the United Fruit Co.), Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison...