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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found it to be beautiful, simple singing, especially the Alto Rhapsody which is built around episodes in the lonely Hartz Mountains in Germany. Miss Anderson makes the stark tonality of the song ring long after the record is over. Indeed, one can find much to compare in the after effect of the Anderson and the Holiday records. They are sincere versions of different types of music, overshadowed by the tragedy evident in each. Byron said, "To be an artist, one must have lived through the griefs of life." Jimmy Rushing, Count Basie's blues singer, puts it, "To sing...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Though not exactly ideal fare of the long-suffering exam-taker, "Dark Victory" is, nonetheless, a picture which deserves consideration and respect. In fact, anytime a producer goes against the laws of "sure-fire box office" and puts out a tragedy that relies on dramatic effect rather than gag lines for entertainment, that producer has a lot of respect due to come his way, but he's also courting box office defeat. Fortunately, by the grace of the gods and the acting of Bette Davis, "Dark Victory" is no defeat, although it is a rather dark victory. After all, watching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Changes in instruction of third-year students in the Law School, emphasizing instruction in the organization and presentation of legal materials together with increased opportunities for seminar study, will be put into effect this next academic year, Dean James M. Landis announced today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS TO HAVE MORE SEMINARS | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

Until this week courts had held that Article III-Section 1 of the Constitution* meant the Federal Government could not tax its judges' salaries. The inference was that Congress might sway justice by slapping taxes on its dispensers. That interpretation, acid-tongued Justice Felix Frankfurter in effect ruled this week, is so much tommyrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Judges Are Also Citizens | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...into, until, at Ottawa, the crowd went crazy and somebody actually slapped George on the back. At that point the Royal visit-whose chief purpose was to bring Canada as close as possible into the arms of the war-scared mother country-could be said to have achieved its effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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