Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow evening's Freshman dance opens the Yardlings' official social season. Don Gahan and his orchestra and the Dixon sisters will provide the entertainment which will be supplemented by several novelty acts by students. To facilitate the patrons' problems, the Freshman Union is admitting girl guests at tomorrow's dinner...
Hundreds of alumni from north of the Mason and Dixon line and east of the Alleghenies will invade Harvard a week from tomorrow to visit classes, attend a symposium on "The Relation of the United States to World Affairs," and dine in majesty at the Harvard Club...
...back as to avoid rural electrification. To this thesis Kaufman & Hart now devote their practiced wits. Ernest Truex plays the part of a little man who buys a Pennsylvania farm where Washington supposedly bedded (actually it turns out to have been Benedict Arnold). The acid Jean Dixon is his wife, forced among other pastoral ordeals to watch a well-drilling operation strike successive layers of mud and eventually a cemetery ("Anyone we know?" she cries...
Southern Rebel. South of what was once the Mason and Dixon border, rebellion has been mixed up traditionally with conservatism rather than with reform. Lawrence Lee is a Jeffersonian Southerner, an Alabaman who went north to Albemarle County, Va.-"the world's one real county-in all the spiritual significance of that word"-where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity...
...quite jell. Ernest Truex as the paterfamilias, Newton Fuller (who always wanted to live in the country) is well chosen, though his reiterated exhortation of "Just smell that air!" brings back memories of Ed Wynn's lisped plaint "I love the woods, I just love the woods." Jean Dixon as the wife is pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter of the Fullers and her friends, were disappointingly undecorative save for one uncommunicative siren, Toni Sorel...