Word: mares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the French film movement in America goes back to the summer of 1931, when Mrs. Rand happened to attend a production of "La Grande Mare" at a Paris theatre. Immediately struck by the value which films would have in helping Americans to an understanding of French, she tried as soon as she returned to Cambridge to interest other people in the idea, including among others John A. Haeseler '23, former Director of the University Film Service...
Typical of the tongue-in-check attitude Laval has maintained all through the present crisis, this new suggestion takes no account of the fact that Mussolini's appetite for southern dainties must be appeased and that the removal of the British fleet would make the Mediterranean "Mare Nostrum" indeed...
...last season was the trend toward a realisation of native values in American life. Many plays definitely American were produced successfully, and the four conspicuous ones are reproduced by Mr. Mantle. Future historians of the drama will look back with interest on poet Maxwell Anderson's "Valley Forge" and Mare Connelly's colorful picture of Eric Canal life, "The Farmer Takes A Wife." America today is well represented by Sherwood's romantic western comedy, "The Petrified Forest," and by young Odet's panorama of life among the lowly in New York City, "Awake And Sing." Then there is the powerful...
...Sans Famille," adapted from Malot's famous book by Mare Allagret is to be the first of the series, and is to be screened at the Institute of Geographical Exploration October...
None of His Majesty's subjects in the United Kingdom saw last week any such thing as a news map (see cut) of the actual Mediterranean situation: roughly one million tons of fighting craft jammed into the small sea which Romans have called for over 2,000 years Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). On paper the Mediterranean seemed "bottled up'' by British ships at its two outlets, Gibraltar and Suez. But the paws of the British Lion remained relaxed last week. Italy's transatlantic liners continued to shuttle on schedule through the Straits of Gibraltar. Italian transports moved methodically through...