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Link is made to feel almost like one of the family. Pop (Victor Moore), an after-the-whistle Edison, gums up their first handshake with some ersatz rubber. A young brother, ghoulishly interested in medicine, counts Link's metatarsals and pleads for a dram of blood. A budding sister hopes Link will marry her ("Plenty of girls marry before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...History, Government, and Economics readers continue to swell the crowd flocking through the white pillars, but with the Union Library locked up they will be joined by hundreds of other Freshmen. The House libraries, primarly intended for tutorial and general reading, are not well enough stocked to dram off any appreciable amount of former Union and Boylston traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Lag | 10/30/1942 | See Source »

Planning to wrest all the horror possible out of green light effects, an inter-mission-dimmed house, deceptive draperies, and revised dialogue, the Harvard Dramatic Club will present its own version of "Dracula," a stage adaptation of Dram Stoker's famous novel, on August 20, 21, 22 in Sanders Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Dramatic Club Will Give Own "Dracula" Version | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

...award their prize to the best American drama of the past year. After haphazard balloting, during which only six of the seventeen critics bothered to vote, no decision was reached and the award was cancelled. Critics agreed in calling this the worst season in the history of the American dram...

Author: By Jervis B. Mcmechan, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 5/1/1942 | See Source »

...time, Grand Ol' Opry has coaxed out of the hills a great album of musty, hand-me-down folk songs. Some are fiddly old dances, like Tennessee Waggoner, Rabbit in the Pea Patch, Cross-Eyed Butcher, Give the Fiddler a Dram, Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County. Others, plaintive and plunky like Maple on the Hill, Brown's Ferry Blues, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, have gone on to wide juke-box favor. One recent find was a fine old Fundamentalist allegory called The Great Speckled Bird, probably inspired by Jeremiah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opry Night | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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