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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major fault of "The Wedding March" is that it drags. There is no question that some of the photography question that some of the photography is excellent, that scenes are skillfully put together, and that Fay Wray does a first class bit of acting. But somehow the thing seems to drag out interminably. As a picture by von Stroheim. "The Wedding March" is probably worth seeing, and as movies go it certainly is more than average, but none the less in view of what has been said in anticipation it is a great disappointment...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE FUNERAL NOT THE WEDDING MARCH | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

...winter schedules for the University Freshman track teams call for four major meets each, it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association. For two of these, the University squad will go to New York, while all the remaining meets will take place in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Schedule of the University Track Contingent Calls For Four Major Meets--Te am Goes to New York for Two | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

...last of his hour examinations, the last major game at Cambridge, and the happily diminuendo echoes of the campaign make the Vagabond feel that one stage of the college year is past. In support of this impression is the fact that the last of Professor Hazard's public lectures occurs this after noon. He speaks in Emerson Hall at 5 o'clock on "Paul Claudel et Paul Valery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

Elected. Dr. Frank Parker Day, onetime Second Lieutenant in the King's Colonial Imperial Yeomanry, Major of the 28th New Brunswick Dragoons; Master of Arts at Christ Church (The House), Oxford, college boxer, crew man; English lecturer at Swarthmore College, as president of Union College to succeed Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Behind the Newsprint Export of Canada there existed a theory and a fact. The theory was that the price of newsprint to U. S. publishers was $65 a ton. The fact was that association members were making deals with such major users as Publisher William Randolph Hearst for less than $60 a ton. When the fact became known to the theory, the Newsprint Export went up in smoke. The Hearst contracts went into court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fact | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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