Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the dance on Friday afternoon before the Jubilee would make for too many continuous hours of dancing in one day, was finally settled in favor of the Friday proposal. The P.B.B. Committee in charge of the tea dance claimed that a Freshman baseball game with Yale besides other minor complications interfered with the original Saturday schedule...
...March from "The Queen of Sheba"Gounod *Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven "Bach Goes to Town," A Fugue in Swing Templeton Orchestration by Henry Brant *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss Concerto for Pianoforte No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 Rubinstein I. Moderato II. Moderato assai III. Allegro assai Soloist: Selma Pelonsky Songs by "Smiff en Poofs" *Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies *Prayer of Thanksgiving, Old Dutch Hymn Valerius-Kremser *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Schumann: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 105, for Violin and Piano (Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin; Victor: 4 sides). A slight, lyric, late Schumann sonata, superbly performed...
...constant touch by telephone and through emissaries described (by Manhattan's elegant railroad amateur Lucius Beebe, a technical adviser on Union Pacific) as "the king's messengers." Traditionally the best actor and dramatic writer on any DeMille set, DeMille is usually patient, sometimes disconcerting. When two minor Union Pacific actors began an argument as to which should laugh louder in a scene, DeMille startled them by screaming: "Jumping Piltdown elephants! Let's not make an epic out of two grunts...
...detail. As a result, the atmosphere of frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians, their reaction to "civilization," the lives of the railroad workers, and the machinations of big financiers behind the scenes in Washington--is vividly portrayed. Technical superiority, shown particularly in the handling of minor characters, has produced an authentic background; Akim Tamiroff, as a virile plug-ugly, is outstanding. To be sure, as much cannot be said for Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, who are pleasant but unnecessary; nevertheless, by virtue of the skill with which a worthwhile tlicme has been handled, a convincing...