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...Before. The problem of rapid industrial building on a national scale was nothing new to Builder Kahn. In 1928 the Soviet Government, after combing the U.S. for a man who could furnish the building brains for Russia's industrialization, offered the job to Kahn. Twenty-five Kahn engineers and architects went to Moscow. They had to start from scratch. Russia not only lacked factories, but the pencils and drafting boards to design them. There was only one blueprint machine in Moscow. Six months were taken up in compiling a Russian-English technical dictionary so that the U.S. engineers could...
...hearts and pocketbooks bled at letters of appeal, and who made no importunate inquiries as to what became of the money. So the methodical Vicar compiled his own card-indexed list containing 20,000 of the choicest, most tenderhearted names in England, found he could have his own motor, furnish the vicarage like a house in London's swank West End, spend more than 20 times his Vicar's miserable stipend of ?400 yearly...
...bright spots are supplied by Mary Barthelemess, in the part of the maid, and William Mendrek, whose role is that of an iceman. Although overdone, their characterizations ring true and furnish many laughs. Allan Tower, who plays the part of the Big Bad Businessman, has the curious aura of "Ten Nights in a Barroom" about him and the end of the play finds you surprised that he has produced neither a long black mustache, or whip...
Rehabilitation. Without quarreling with such critics, the editors of The Paintings of Raphael furnish a wealth of illustrations to plead Raphael's versatility. Of mild Madonnas they show plenty. But the editors have pulled from Vatican ceilings and walls details of composition which tourists could never properly see-gritty old men with hair in their ears, powerful brooding figures as lonely as those of Michelangelo, heavy-hoofed chargers, pictures of fire and terror, men bowed under back-breaking loads. They have also dug out of obscurity original pen-and-ink sketches, such as Nude Men Fighting About a Standard...
Like "all colleges today," he said, Harvard is faced with a serious and difficult problem as a result of present national needs. In preparing its young men primarily for war service of the nation, the College must at the same time make every effort to furnish to young men the fullest possible background of liberal tradition on which the ideas and civilization for which we are at war are based...