Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embodiment of common sense, the foil to his rebellious protege, Charlie, and the saving grace of the performance. He is supreme in all business affairs, but, like most great men, he has one weakness--his daughter, Rosie. Her character, as portrayed by Catherine Willard, is a contrast between the self-willed rich girl and the "bloomin' angel" who plays Santa Claus to all her father's down trodden employees...
...American Field Service Association, which is seeking to establish scholarships to send French students to American Universities and American students to French Universities, the Dramatic Club will repeat Andreyeff's "The Life of Man" in Brattle Hall at 8.10 o'clock tonight. "The Life of Man" in sharp contrast to "Beranger", which was presented last night, is a powerful drama depicting the life of any man in moments of despair, failure, triumph, and finally, disillusionment...
...dramatic yet genuinely constructive policies of Mussolini have advanced rates for Italian lire. Belgian and French francs have also continued strong. Fewer Bank of France notes are now outstanding than when the French armies entered the Ruhr. This is in the strongest possible contrast to Germany, whose currency now aggregates nearly five trillion marks through the colossal addition last week of 683 billion. The German $50,000,000 "loan" failed dismally, German industrialists evidently holding completely aloof...
...Pollak '23 continued the argument for the Progressives by refuting the Conservative belief that this court is merely the Hague Tribunal over again. He showed that the World-Court because of its unchanging board of judges, in contrast to the changeable board of the Hague Tribunal, could develop a series of court rulings, which would constitute a saving, virile international...
Sacha Guitry's "Beranger" is in direct contrast to "The Life of Man", being of a lighter character. Guitry pictures biographically the life of the famous poet, Beranger, with all his pleasures and his conflict with Talleyrand. The play has been translated by Howard Phillips '23 without detracting from its wit or vigor...