Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped that many of these manuscripts may later be accepted by commercial publishers. Every detail of the course will be directed toward the practical solution of problems affecting the subject matter in hand. Mr. Thomas has had experience in this sort of work, and his guidance will be given to all students in the course...
...story was handled in pictures with a mawkish solemnity that made it unbearable. It is built around a laugh-clown-laugh sequence in which a young Spanish singer, his heart broken when his sweetheart is taken away from him, outdoes himself as Canio in Pagliacci. Yet so skillful are detail, dialog, direction that the spectator is never concerned with the values of the plot as realism. Modern sound technique has transformed the old romantic design into a highly successful and credible operetta. Novarro sings Spanish folk songs, English foxtrots, Italian opera. He has one of those brilliantly cultivated concert tenors...
...Messrs. Shubert have taken pains to point out that "all Inca detail in Nina Rosa, as well as the Inca designs for the curtains, are based upon authentic relics and data obtained in Peruvian museums." Settings appeared authentic, chorines merely Perusable...
...exploration, and described in the formal announcement modestly as an "amateur of the geographical sciences." Harvard is to give geography its co-ordinate place with the other sciences. Dr. Rice is founding a school of geography, which will have its own building and an equipment complete in every detail. This building will house the most complete file of records of expeditions to every part of the earth to be found anywhere in one place and available for reference and study. The building will mount its own wireless plant so that expeditions in remote lands may be in touch with...
...occupying the foot-lights at the Wilbur (current advertising in this column is 90 cents per inch). That disposed of the Bard. As for Monsieur Homer (even if the nomenclature is a mixed metaphor) he perched over a super-hetrodyne for the Sharkey-Campolo affair and that little detail cleared up the Iliad. He even attempted to get into the mood of the Greek drama but-somewhere or other he has learned that the needy catchword for the theatre of Sophocles is "simplicity." He tried, yes and diligently, but whoever could attain quiet and simplicity amid the thundering cement-grinders...