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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regular cross country men were all way down in the ruck with Roswell Brayton, the first dependable to finish, in the tenth spot. He was followed by Henry Marcy in fifteenth, Bill Wright in sixteenth, and Cyrus De Coster following them. Charley Worth and John Erhard were twenty-second and third respectively...
...Barbier de Seville", the famous play by Hesumarchals with a cast including actors from the Paris Opera and the Opera Comique will be the first of the French Films given this year, showing in four performances at the Geographical Institue today and tomorrow. "Les Noces de Figaro" will be given as a companion piece at these performances...
...debt to French culture. A map of "Boston" drawn in 1693 by Franquelin, a French engineer, is reproduced in the opening pages. On the banks of the Charles can be distinguished a group of houses (which may be the first known view of Harvard!) with the explanation: "Cambridge, bourgade de 80 maisons. C'est une universite." This succinct comment probably represents all that was known about Harvard in the dominions of Louis XIV. How far that little candle (to quote Shakespeare and Mr. Curley) now throws its beams can be judged from a perusal of this collection of studies...
...free offerings of the French Films Committee are to be particularly recommended to Freshmen, who may not know of their value. Last year the Committee showed a varied selection of excellent films, including the French version of "Pasteur." This week it is presenting an adaptation of Beaumarchais' "Barbier de Seville"--one of the greatest plays in any language--with a fine cast including actors from the Paris Opera and the Opera-Comique. The Committee might, with considerable justice, lay claim to a policy of showing "nothing but the best...
Fredric March plays the moody, restive adventurer with admirable restraint and vigor, and Olivia de Havilland gives a vivid likeness of the passionate and equally vacillatory heroine. The ponderous weight of the thing is distinctly felt at the occasional points where Anthony becomes a prosaic globe trotter, but his genius for running into adversity usually lends the needed romance...