Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last House dinner which the Class of 1937 can attend, last night, George H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Ronald M. Ferry '12, House Master, spoke, and Maurice Sapienza '37, Class Poet, recited his poem on the occasion...
...personalities of the radio, screen and sports world, was arranged by a large committee under the direction of John F. Kennedy '40. This was greeted by an often enthusiastic audience which smoked and consumed the traditional corncob pipes, cigarettes, ginger ale, doughnuts, and ice cream. Kennedy also acted as master of ceremonies...
John Raltenbury Skeaping never went to an ordinary school or college, it being his father's conviction that children wasted their time learning things in school which they could master in a few months after growing up. His father was a painter, his mother a pianist. When he was three years old, John began to draw horses and fanciful animals; when he was seven, his father started him to work with oils. He trotted for miles over the Essex countryside following farm horses, watching the jounce and ripple of muscle, the play of light on sweaty hide...
...Janet Gaynor, whose artistic growth in the past five years has not been noticeable, A Star Is Born supplies a role comparable to her Seventh Heaven (1927), but it is really Fredric March whose casting was a Selznick master stroke. An intelligent actor who studies his roles carefully, March's work in the past has often had, perhaps on this account, an elusive but annoying artificiality. In A Star Is Born this false note becomes precisely the true one required to make his performance in the role of actor the best since his similar job in The Royal Family...
...Hara, the well known sports columnist of the Boston Traveller will be Toast-master at the Smoker Tuesday, to be held for the first time in history in huge Memorial Hall rather than the Union...