Word: mays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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March will be devoted to study of American History and Literature under the direction of Professor Thomas H. Vance of Dartmouth. Sociology is the subject of the April conference, while May is set for Art and Music, led by David Diamond, and June for Theater conducted by Eric Bentley...
...Times concluded the girls at Smith are going to college ". . . not to render their sex less feminine but to develop as fully as may be the powers of womanhood and furnish women with means of usefulness, happiness and honor...
...just as most slapstick comedy can be funny. Ivy Films have borrowed the Keystone Cop chase and the little circus car which spits out a steady stream of big men. It also means that the audience cannot sit back and chew popcorn and know what is coming off. They may even have to puzzle things out with Ivy Film's program. But this reviewer feels there is plenty of room for motion pictures which people have to sit up and watch...
...acting in "A Touch" is limited, again, by the pantomime requirements of the silent film. It meets them; the best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person...
...Films has not made a movie which is entertaining along strict movie-review ideas of what makes for entertainment. It will not please Eight to Eighty, All the Kiddies, or even necessarily allow you to spend a Pleasant Hour at the U.T. You may find the photography extraordinarily sensitive; it might just as well give you a headache. The story can strike you as social commentary, or a cutting-room sweeping of unarticulated scenes. But "A Touch of the Times" will also let you know that there are people seriously pointing ahead towards movie-making as an art. It will...