Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This movement to give Harvard a practical school of the theatre was begun in order that the gap left by the departure of George Pierce Baker and his 47 Workshop might be filled. Tonight's meeting was the culmination of a long period of work by Harvard undergraduates who felt the need of such a school, and have been engaged for several months in sounding the student body of the University with regard to the possible, establishment of such a course of study. The plans which were completed tonight call for a course to be given during the second half...
Football is not the only sport which claims Ticknor's services. At Milton he figured prominently in baseball, basketball and track as well earning nine letters. At Harvard however he has devoted his time solely to the gridiron and diamond. Last spring he covered the left field post on the Crimson nine and will once again be a candidate for this post...
Earlier in the week President Chiang Kai-shek left Honan where he had been directing operations against the People's Army (northern rebels, supposedly under the direction of Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan) for Nanking. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria came a second report: military leaders of all Chinese factions had ceased fighting, concluded a speedy truce to present a united front against the Russians...
...promise of an orgy of unusual spending as a pledge not to curtail ordinary expenditure. In order to keep production up, each line of business must be sure other lines are running at full schedule. In this way did the conference give each leader assurance that he would be left holding no bag. Rumors of curtailment were denied. Merchant Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. said it was not true he had laid off 1,200 employes but that he had discharged 28, taken on 200. Other executives spoke along the same lines. Alexander Legge. Chairman...
...Love Parade (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou, dismayed by the prospect of playing in talking films, left Hollywood and went to live in Paris, this picture, which had been written for him, was made over for Maurice Chevalier. A captain of the Guards who marries a Queen finds that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged...