Word: modelied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Molecule Magnets. It has been known for years that nerve impulses are electric in nature. But the mode of transmission remained obscure. It was wrong to picture a current passing along a nerve fibre as if through a metallic conductor. Since 1926 Dr. Edwin Joseph Colin and his associates at Harvard have been looking for a better picture. Last week he announced important progress...
Although the film is played in modern dress, its humor is of another and more gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their...
...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...
...especially when comparisons are made with the conditions in the Tsarist regime under which she also lived. Her intimate knowledge with her subject and the skillful way in which the facts are set forth demand recognition but it should be remembered that the author is used to a different mode of living and is somewhat too old to adapt her ways to that of a new system. She undoubtedly presents the facts faithfully. Our only question is about the facts she does not present...
Original sets by Edward Melcharth, famous London director, will provide a background for Dunster House actors in "Marriage a la Mode" tomorrow night. The production is being managed and directed by Robert Gale Noyes, author and composer of last year's opers and well known for his before-the-curtain talks. A Lawrence Lowell '77, president-emeritus, will be a guest at the House Dinner preceding the play and subsequent festivities...