Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall Greek B, I Sever 30 History 10a New Lect. Hall History 12 New Lect. Hall History 56a Memorial Hall Latin 12 Sever 17 Mathematics A II Professor Coolidges's Section 1 Sever 36 Mr. Brown's Section 2 Sever 24 Mr. Wexler's Section 3 Sever 35 Mr. Fox's Section 4 Sever 35 Mathematics C I, 1, 2, 3, 4 Memorial Hall Mathematics 4 Birkhoff-Slonim Sever 23 Stollmeyer-Yudin Sever 24 Mathematics 8 Harvard 2 Meteorology 1 Blatchford-Phipps Sever 5 Ricketts-Whitman Sever 6 Mineralogy 2 Mineral. Lab. Music 6 Sever 6 Philosophy A Abdian-Burhoe...
...world. Pierre Wertheimer, within the last few years, has given more and more interest to breeding race horses at his 14th century barony in the Gironde district, to hunting at his lodge 100 miles from Paris. Cinema. With $1,600 saved from the cloak & suit business William Fox bought his first theatre in 1904. Last week he called himself the world's largest operator of cinema houses. He cited figures. He had just added a new group of 40 independent theatres in and near Manhattan, with annual profits of $5,000,000, seating capacity of 280,000. Acquisition...
...Volpone" is a long and beautifully bred sneer, tuned within an octave whose extremes are its own deft slapstick and the high cyniscism of "Caprice". Ben Jonson gave the Fox his being and his taste to trick the would be inheritors, who licked his hands for the delicious death sweat. Since then "Volpone" has been through the adaptation of Stefan Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment...
Volpone and Mosca were played with skill by Claude Rains and Earl Larimore. In his nightgown, his cracked and reedy voice gleeful with deception, Volpone remained to the end a riddle. After the Fox, in planned guise of death, has signed away his coffersful to his servant, Mosca throws into his teeth the question: "Who are you?", and there is no real answer. Volpone is no longer Volpone, for Volpone made a will and died. But he never was anyone; even to Johnson he never was more real than the idea of greed...
...Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play the whole truth of virtue outraged. His acting grew in strength, and no irony was lost in the trial for rape and the money-won acquittal of the Fox...