Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hara by acting in the stage production of Holiday. In this version, as in the first cinema edition, the Stewart role-that of the hero's amiably light-headed crony-is played with whimsicality a shade less grim than usual by Edward Everett Horton. Omitting his own classic monologue on "How I Invented the Bottle," Screenwriter Stewart has substituted as the role's piece de resistance a lightly Leftish Punch & Judy show...
...Edgar Howard Borck, captain of the Manhattan College team, ran the mile in 4 min., 13.9 sec., breaking by a half-second the classic record set by Cornell's John Paul Jones...
...18th-Century icons taken out of Russia after elaborate negotiations, insured for a reputed sum of $100,000 and called priceless. Visitors to the first public showing in the U. S. found the 96 paintings prime examples of colorful, realistic, popular art, ranging from Klavdii Labedev's classic The Fall of Novgorod, to almost photographic scenes of factory and peasant life by Soviet artists. Watching the reaction of Wisconsin students, Professor Oskar Frank L. Hagen, curator of the university's paintings, said they were "flabbergasted and enraptured with pleasure...
Anna Christie (Thurs. 10 p.m.. NBC-Blue). Eugene O'Neill's coal-barge classic revived in a short version for the Pulitzer Prize radio series...
...they could surpass its life-loaded repose they would touch the summit of their art. Appreciation of such forms is not purely abstract. Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian art and Egyptian writings, a little more dust is shined off the dynasties...