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In the first place, many of the nation's leading anthropologists (full professors from sea to shining sea) were first interested in the field because Anthy 1 happened to be a snap at their respective alma maters. And then there are the four prominent industrialists who, as worldly Harvard under...
Scattered throughout the volume are short vignettes of men and institutions which are well worth reading even without regard for the general context. Professor Guerard has the advantages of a Gallic mind thoroughly at home in the English idiom, and his sparking deftness of phrase makes him delightful reading. However...
Fortunately Keep 'Em Laughing isn't all headliners. Jack Cole and his dancers deftly combine Oriental gestures with jazz rhythms; Miriam La Velle does exciting acrobatic dances. But by far the best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who...
Only two days before a silky-voiced Tokyo announcer had scoffed at the very idea: "The Chinese Government," said he, "has been spreading the most laughable, false propaganda that the Japanese capital has been bombed. The people of Tokyo pleasantly enjoy the quiet, peaceful and delightful spring days, observing the...
Everyone knows the story on which Randall Thompson has based his little opera. It is Kipling's tale of "The Butterfly That Stamped," of the hen-pecked butterfly who in desperation boasted that he could conjure away Solomon's palace by stamping his foot--and did. Thompson has dramatized the...