Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointed by the Dormitory Council early this year to "study the present grading system and to propose a more equitable grading system, if one could be found." The Committee was composed of two faculty members, Seavey and Assistant Law School Dean Louis A. Toepfer, and six Law School students. Michael J. McNulty 2L acted as chairman. The minority report was written by Charles H. W. Talbot...
Died. Prince Michael Cantacuzene, 79, prerevolutionary Russian general and former husband of Julia Dent Grant, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant; in Sarasota, Fla. Prince Cantacuzene met Julia Grant, daughter of onetime (1888-93) Ambassador to Austria-Hungary Major General Frederick D. Grant, at Cannes, married her in 1899, and was divorced by her in 1934, spent his last years as a Florida bank executive and manager of agricultural holdings...
Died. Count Michael Karolyi, 80, one of the founders (in 1918) and first President of the Hungarian Republic; in Vence, France. Karolyi lived in exile through the years of the Horthy regime, returned after World War II, was Red Hungary's Ambassador to Paris from 1947 until his retirement...
...Glass Slipper breathes, as Lili did, the atmosphere of a latter-day fairy tale. It is, in fact, the Cinderella story rewritten with the sort of sophistication best confined to the perfume ads. The prince (Michael Wilding) no longer loves his lass just because she is beautiful. He admires her "great agonized . . . rebellious eyes." The glass slipper is now made of "the finest Venetian glass." And the fairy godmother (Estelle Winwood) is a queer old dear who wanders around saying "window sill" because it sounds so nice...
Still, there are some pleasant things here too. Some of the scenes have a Lili-like lilt. One of the ballets, in which Michael gives Leslie a cooking lesson in the palace kitchen, is a sightly romp. The color is fresh and bright. Cinderella's dress for the ball is wonderful-the skirt looks like a frilly igloo* -and Leslie wears it as a princess should. And when all else fails, there is Keenan Wynn. As somebody called Kovin, a confidant of the prince, poor Keenan has practically nothing to do all through the picture except to stride...