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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be hard to find a story that made less use of her talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Gates last week gave his congregation jovial news. Said he: "Saints are everywhere. Everyone here is a saint. In visiting prisons I find saints. A saint is anybody in the world trying to do the best he can with the help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. John's Dean | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...that the Dramatic Club is inherently inefficient, but that the very nature of such a large organization dependent on gate receipts, prevents them from devoting their entire attention to producing plays whose only recommendation is dramatic excellence. If a movement should be developed which would not find it necessary to be greatly concerned with financial gain and the inclusion of many members in the casts of their plays, but could rather concern itself with the problems of writing and producing plays, the present lethargy might be shaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILLING THE GAP | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

...southern invaders, on the other hand, coming at a time when the outlook is more optimistic would raise havoc. There is feeling around Soldiers Field that the poor showing on the last two Saturday was caused by the absence of Harper from the lineup. This afternoon's game will find the crack Crimson fullback harness and Harvard followers feel the he will supply the spark necessary make the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ELEVEN TO FACE FLORIDA IN CRUCIAL TES | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

...first intimation that I had that there would be any change in the Garden," said Mr. Hamblin, "came with the instructions given me by Mr. Lowell on Wednesday, October 16, in relation to the closing of the gates. I find that the Visiting Committee, departmental heads, officers of the University, and also the Garden Clubs and other people interested in giving for the Garden, knew nothing of this decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOTANIC GARDEN DONORS MAY SEEK RETURN OF GIFTS | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

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