Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of a prominent English politician, who, at middle age, finds himself shut in from the pleasures of the world by success. Suddenly he has a chance to recapture his first love, and his struggle to cling to romance, while success closes about him once more, forms the central interest of the play...
Coming out of the green mist that has enveloped her in numerous Erin and Great Western roles, Colleen Moore emerges this week at the Met as a really first string triple threat talkie star. Without any doubt "Footlights And Fools", a sea of comedy with cross currents of dramatic interest is Miss Moore's best piece of work. Incidentaly, it probably will bring her new admirers from the ranks of those who have been frankly cold to her smiling Irish eyes...
Papa Juan, the centenarian around whom the story revolves, is a fine old man, kindly, good and wise, who has used every year of his age to the fullest and still has as keen an interest in life and as live a brain as any of his three generations of descendants. With real finesse is the character drawn. The other members of the family who one meets as the play progresses all must yield in some point to its head. Don Evaristo is a bit crotchety, Dona Filomena is on bad terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella...
...part of their college education", he said. "Certainly the contacts formed through newspaper and magazine competitions are of as much value as lectures and study, and both would be of more significance if related to one another. The future university will help the student to face the total interest of life, and his studies will become activities...
Harvard can, without assuming a holier-than-thou attitude, safely claim a unique place musically among American universities. Not only is there the almost wearingly long catalogue of Boston's musical events to interest it: there are the concerts presented specifically for Harvard, that find an increased audience each year with their return. The University is in the happy position of a clearing-house for two factors necessary in all culture: the willingness of donors to present significant works, and the readiness of a public to receive and appreciate such gifts...