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...back from Chateau d'If (which takes about forty minutes by boat) I sat next to three girls who looked French but spoke Greek. They praised Dumas' imagination, showed traces of profound interest in the ancient "Massilia" during the Gallo-Roman epoch, then turned girlish and discussed men: Frenchmen were too short, but nice to be gay with; Germans were rough but make good husbands; Englishmen are stiff and cold; Americans are rich-but oh, so very young! Yet how good it would be to meet some men, no matter from where. "Come, Loretta. you are nearest, shall we commence...
...recently purchased collection of French administrative acts ranging from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the period of the Revolution. Most of the official pamphlets have been discovered in the archives of a family which served the government in high capacities through successive generations all during this epoch...
...that there has been a contribution outstanding enough to deserve it, the prize has been presented only five times in the past. It went to Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark Griffith (1936) as a belated tribute for outstanding contributions "to the advancement of the motion picture." Last week the Committee decided that in 1935-36 cinema...
First volume of The Colonial Period began with a sweeping summary of the whole epoch of exploration that opened with the expeditions of Prince Henry of Portugal from 1394 to 1460, together with an excellent account of the joint-stock companies, the Merchant Adventurers of New England, who paved the way for England's colonial expansion. Professor Andrews usually finds in the English adventurer companies sober self-interest pulling the wires, with small ports out to smash London monopolies, and England in turn encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among...
Riding the crest of a wave of photographic fervor that carried with it the formation of the Harvard Film Society to present epoch-making pictures, Widener Memorial Library yesterday received from Adolph Zukor, of Paramount fame, a gift of 500 prints from motion pictures he has made...