Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current furore over "Grand Illusion," the film now playing at the Fine Arts, makes it fairly obvious that this is an excellent picture. Although it is no epoch-making production, Jean Renoir's slightly idealistic picture is certainly different from the movies produced in our Hollywood. On the average audience this differences has a great shock-effect, and it is this effect that is in turn misinterpreted as the stamp of a superior film...
...delivered the British ultimatum to President Eduard Benes, and John Troutbeck, first secretary of the British Legation at Prague, were made a Knight Commander and a Companion, respectively, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
Most great U. S. universities were launched upon their greatness by great teachers, made famous by winning football teams and eventually made impressive by grand buildings. University of Texas reversed this procedure...
...properly to support its public schools may be fined an amount twice its biggest annual school expenditure. Recently Woburn's Mayor William E. Kane cut the schools' allowance. Woburn's teachers went unpaid. Thereupon they complained to the State Attorney General. Fortnight ago a Middlesex County grand jury solemnly indicted the City of Woburn, Inc. for school nonsupport. This week the town goes on trial. If it is convicted Woburn taxpayers may be fined...
Buxtehude: Missa Brevis, and Johann Hermann Schein: Motet "Die Mit Tranen Säen" (Motet Singers, Paul Boepple conducting; Musicraft: 4 sides). In 1700, grand old man of European music was a Swedish composer and organist named Dietrich Buxtehude. His quaint, archaic Missa Brevis is as deft and complicated as a Renaissance tapestry. Composer Schein's motet, added for good measure, was written about half a century earlier...