Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed building will be devoted entirely to research. Into it will be moved a large part of the advanced work now being carried on in Jefferson and Cruft. The space made available in the Jefferson Laboratory will be refitted to form modern teaching equipment for undergraduates...
...have played principally the romantic drama," the actor continued, "though I did do Ibsen and his contemporaries some time ago. I find the modern theatre very creative, it is not decadent What I am troubled about is the opposition offered to the legitimate stage by the talking pictures...
...Notwithstanding the intelligent censorship which Chile has established over plays and cinemas, parents cannot be sure that their children will see a type of performance designed to improve their morals and character. The average modern drama not only lacks good taste and educational art entirely but generally depicts robberies, disorders and the baser passions. The Municipality of Santiago will present in our new Children's Theatre plays especially written for children only. There will be some free performances so that the children of the poor, as well as the wealthy, may enjoy this wholesome influence...
...punch of most modern music is in the tickets. Exception: Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky. He is always "good box-office." Manhattan's League of Composers, with Stravinsky's half-hour ballet, Les Noces, on the program (first U. S. production), preceded only by a 17th Century academic tidbit, last week drew a $25,000 audience to the Metropolitan Opera House, the smartest audience since the opening of the opera season last autumn...
...Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital for Children, the George Herbert Jones Chemistry Building, a new $1,500,000 power house. When President Hutchins assumes his duties he will find completed several new dormitories. He will see students walking into a new Rockefeller-endowed chapel and a new Hall of Modern Languages. In the University libraries are stacked more than 1,150,000 books. Studying financial reports, President Hutchins will notice that during its last fiscal year, University of Chicago's assets were $77,812,221.26; that 1928 gifts totaled $6,858,042.00. Looming in the University's financial background...