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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cepheid variable stars, whose fluctuating light beams enable measurement of great interstellar distances, may prove also to hold important new clues to forces at work within the great island universes, or galaxies like our own Milky Way, Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, recently told the National Academy of Sciences...
...said an anonymous gentleman of the press as he watched the Harvard band last Saturday, "what they need out there is a woman." The Crimson agrees. The music was fine, but still the between-the-halves exhibition sagged in the wrong spots. The band acted like a Paris mob storming the Bastille, while the cheer-leaders gave a fair imitation of the English cabinet advocating action...
...indiscreet to carp at the plot of a musical comedy, but it is nothing short of a criminal offense for the authors of a show, in this case Messrs. Nicholson and Robinson, to deprive a trouper like Bert Wheeler of even the smallest semblance of a comic line. In fact, throughout the whole show there is a singular lack of hilarity...
...Ralph Rainger's and Leo Robin's songs are tuneful--"The Wind in My Window" and I've Gone Off the Deep End." Incidentally, there is a team of six young ladies who call themselves "Las Chiquitas" and look like something the management discovered in the railroad station at New Haven...
...Like all other composers Roussel has assimilated a number of outside influences, but so well have they been absorbed that in his mature works Roussel's style has an individual character which can be accounted for only by the inherent originality of his creative nature...