Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike most comedians today, Ed Wynn writes a lot of his own lines. As a "student and analyzer" of humor he has developed his giggle, his high voice, his lisp. The show puts Ed's type of humor in effective contrast with the serious undercurrent of anti-war sentiment. On the one hand, in one act, a score of dazzling chorines dance gracefully with their backs always to the audience. They wear sweeping, transparent costumes. The music plays on, the dance becomes more graceful, the rhythm and movement speed up; finally the climax of the dance is reached and suddenly...
...more fundamental importance than these improvements is the promised over-haul in the duration-of loans system. There is an absurd contrast between the demand for books at Widener and the length of time it allows them to be borrowed, a month by a student and an indefinite period by an instructor. Hope is high that this old complaint will be satisfied by an administration which showed this week a truly friendly desire to serve...
...This would involve a merger of such examinations as those conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board, but would not be limited to a specific subject. This general aspect of the examinations would permit the student who has definite knowledge and skill in one field to demonstrate it in contrast to his lack of ability in another. From the results of such a test, it could be ascertained whether the student lacked scholastic ability in all fields of endeavor, or whether one subject was the cause of his difficulties...
Japanese editors last week taunted that wealthy Chinese have been slack in buying Liberty Bonds, caused tortoise-spectacled Chinese Loan Chairman T. V. Soong to retort: "The sale of our bonds is in pleasing contrast to the situation in Japan where 'China Incident' Bonds are being forced down the throats of bankers whose portfolios are already overladen with Government bonds, thus creating a 'Red Ink Bonds Problem' and accelerating the collapse of Japan's economic currency structure." He added that in Shanghai alone $3,000,000 had been subscribed by wealthy Chinese in blocs...
Playwright Jacques Deval (Tovarich, Mademoiselle, Her Cardboard Lover), author and director, sets his scene in a Parisian girls' club whose portals no man may pass-officially. Of course one manages to slip in, thus providing a thread to the tale and bringing pretty Danielle Darrieux (this time, in contrast to her star-crossed Marie Vetsera in Mayerling, a lively minx) a climax of illicit motherhood. Manhattan censors ordered an English subtitle indicating that Danielle and her young man (Raymond Gall) have been secretly married all along...