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...fine as a general guide. But the planners of any new system must bear in mind that there are some juniors and seniors who merit individual attention, while there are others who will be comparative misfits. While funds are limited, any program should be flexible enough to drop the dullard and encourage the good student...
...stuff, but it is chock-full of what a lot of people mean when they speak of a play. It dramatizes the problem of a woman-a woman twice married and divorced, passionate by nature, restless in spirit, divided in mind. In a chastened mood, she marries an admiring dullard she doesn't love, embraces a provincial and domestic existence that cannot last. The play possesses a full pack of such characters as the tough-minded mother (Beulah Bondi) and the son-worshiping mother-in-law (Evelyn Varden...
...This claim is not alone explicit; it is implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions. I do not wish to challenge the good faith of the CRIMSON...
Mary Shiverick and H. Richard Uviller provided the best comedy of the evening. Although they overdid their English accents just a bit, their comical pomposity was splendid in spots. Uviller, particularly, showed real stage presence which must be the result of considerable past acting experience. As the dullard Blandina, Marilyn Weleh was miscast; she was really much too attractive to play a girl nobody was interested...
Carl Milles has always preferred a studio. Born in Sweden, he started modeling early, baking his clay in his mother's oven and avoiding school as much as possible. His father began to think his delicate son was a dullard. "Send the boy to me. I'll make a man of him," a friend wrote the father. Milles set out, "but I stopped in Paris. I stopped in Paris forever. For six years, I didn't write home. I was excited about...