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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photography is beyond reproach and draws the story into a closely integrated film. The use of the camera gives a like-like sequence to the picture which adds greatly to its dramatic force. Although "Maedchen", is a very satisfying production, even for the person who must depend largely on the English titles to understand the dialogue, the enjoyment of the spectators is much enhanced by a knowledge of German...
...ordinate the efforts of members and non-members of the League of Nations to promote an established peace through consultation and methodical co-operation when peace may be threatened or broken. . . . My Government has this whole question under careful advisement. "Our ability to make our collaboration effective will depend in large part on the measure of disarmament we may be able now to achieve. It must be definite, it must be substantial. We are prepared to make very great efforts to assist in the maintenance of peace when a determination to preserve peace is evidenced by the achievement of real...
Dean Hanford, it appears, has looked to the substance. If, for example, students continue to patronize the widow, it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods, "which would be a great loss to the college as a whole." There is, further, a subtle irony. Establishments which depend for their daily bread on the fact that the measure of a Harvard man's scholastic achievement is taken almost entirely from his ability to sling ink into blue books and which gravy that bread by clinging to the pragmatic belief that the stupidity of examination questions varies little from year...
...account in the swiftly moving "Playboy of the Western World." While he shows the romantic, exuberant nature of the girls, who immediately find charms in the sturdy young run-away who is claimed to have murdered his father, and the way of release from reality for the men, who depend heavily on periodic benders, Synge also shows the deep, unconscious yearning for the rare and the unknown in their earthy world. In the end the play becomes almost tragic as "Pegeen Mike," the shrewish heroine, realizes that she has lost her erstwhile wooer, "the only playboy of the western world...
...Scholarships is confronted this year with the task of sifting and weighing the applications of some 750 men, most of whom, due to the depression, will be found to be deserving of aid. On the Committee's decisions the academic future of a considerable proportion of these applicants will depend; the method by which its decisions are made is clearly of prime importance...