Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plays that are built for actors are only as pleasant as the actors themselves. At Keith's this week "Sin Takes A Holiday" with Constance Bennett is very pleasant indeed. The story isn't much and the supporting cast has little to do, but Miss Bennett is enough for one movie...
Morocco (Paramount). This is the most brilliantly acted and directed picture released since Pathe's Holiday. The story is nothing much?the French Foreign Legion as the background for the love affair of a private soldier and a vaudeville star who has seen better days?yet its often mechanical sequences are brought to life by Director Josef von Sternberg. Always aware that a moving picture ought to move, von Sternberg tells the story rapidly and often silently, so that Morocco has the effect of being a silent picture into which dialog has been woven, not the "incidental dialog...
...single day holiday is especially unfortunate in the case of laboratory courses, since the amount of ground to be covered is not lessened by the vacation, while the closing of the laboratories means that the lost work must be crowded in during some other period. As for the lecture courses, no great rest is involved in their remission, since the amount of intellectual travail assigned is not noticeably less. The student himself gets out of the normal organization of his time, without any great gain during a day that has more resemblances to a lethal Blue Sunday than a vacation...
...other hand, if the student foregoes his legal or bank holidays, the time saved could profitably be added on to the Christmas or Easter vacations, which are at present so short as hardly to fulfill their purpose and do not allow boys living at a distance to go home if their conscience or their dean prohibits travelling time. Perhaps Thanksgiving Day might remain as an old Puritan tradition, but since Columbus Day, Armistice Day, or Patriot's Day are now little more than an occasion for speech-making, they hardly seem legitimate excuses for a holiday, considering the dislocation they...
...Europe today and too little actual disarming, with the result that the 12 years since the World War have seen a regrettable lack of progress toward real disarmament," declared Senator David I. Walsh in an interview at his home in Clinton on the eve of the Armistice Day holiday...