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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course open to both graduates and undergraduates is English 1, announced in the catalogue as "Chaucer." There is no restriction on the admission to the course and any undergraduate enters it on an equal footing with his seniors, expecting from the title in the catalogue a course designed to further a literary appreciation, of Chaucer and to teach enough of Middle English to enable the student to read the poetry with ease and enjoyment, a course similar in scope and design to Mr. Kittredge's English 2. But as the weeks go by the undergraduate finds himself floundering...
...Jugoslavia, had just the day before broken one premier and made another. The secret telephone conference of the three kings was supposed to prepare public opinion for a pact tying up all three Balkan kingdoms with Czechoslovakia, Greece and Turkey in an ambitious union against fascism. In this great design France and Russia, implacable foes of fascism, are supposed to be using their influence to forge an anti-fascist chain across Europe from the English Channel to the Golden Horn...
...motorboat show differs from an automobile show in that practically all the new developments are invisible to the untrained eye. A five-year-old cruiser could be planted on the floor among its newborn sisters and the layman would never know the difference. Radical changes in design from year to year are practically unknown. But there are always new wrinkles. The talk of the 1934 show was rubber mountings for engines, to reduce noise and vibration. First introduced by Chrysler two years ago, it is incorporated in many new models, notably in Elco's Veedette 28. Another new twist...
...Simonson was careful to keep his exhibition a history of the development of stage design, not a history of the drama. The work of all the best known U. S. designers was represented but, more often than not, settings for their best known plays were lacking. People looked in vain for Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Jest, Mourning Becomes Electra; for Bel Geddes' Miracle or Lysistrata; for Jo Mielziner's Street Scene...
Considered as a history of stage design the show had a few glaring omissions. There was no example of the work of the late Joseph Urban, whose electric blue backdrops for the early Follies brought the first stirrings of good taste to U. S. musicomedies. In the antique section of the show there were neither settings nor costumes of the important commedia dell' arte. Most important of all there were no examples of the whole school of late 19th Century realism that reached its height in the spectacular Drury Lane melodramas in which frail heroines were pursued through burning...