Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrison himself is the smoothest ingredient. As a novelist who works in a studio with a romantic north light, he understands women so well that he is willing to teach a couple of smug husbands that if they want to hold their wives, they had better come across with some of the little niceties that ladies appreciate. Mr. Harrison has a lot of fun teaching them their lesson, and so does the audience, if you like attempted seduction in an atmosphere of soft music, low lights, and exquisitely cut dinner jackets. Mr. Harrison's technique would make even a Princeton...
...Margaret Webster, newsreel-length Shakespeare was a light chore at the end of a heavy season. Besides laboring at the Maurice Evans Hamlet and Henry IV Part I, she directed the current Family Portrait, plays Mary Magdalene in it. The most powerful new director in the U. S. theatre, Margaret Webster is bold, witty, imaginative. She does not approach Shakespeare on bended knee, but gives him a hearty slap on the back...
Burning question for many readers may well be: what do the Beards think of the New Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt? Adept at juggling hot coals, the cagey Beards are much too light-fingered to hold one of them a minute too long, on the whole admire most New Deal intentions, are politely skeptical of most New Deal results...
...exhibits because it is the thing to do--pseudo-aesthetes who come well stocked with the latest artistic catchwords and cliches--are advised to stay as far away from this presentation as possible. The combination of internal thought and external appeal, the juxtaposition of the serious and the light, make this exhibit more than merely interesting. It has guts and is meant for living people...
Strong finishes were the controlling factors in two crucial races last Saturday, when the Varsity and the light-weight eight took their races with brilliant final sprints. A Crimson sweep was marred by two defeats in the full day of racing on the Charles by the Jayvees and the Freshman...