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...officer slyly schemes to obtain the secret of success at faro from the wizened old countess (who sold her soul to get it). Anton Walbrook, who doesn't need a sound track, plays the officer; the rest of the cast are competent English actors, quite at home in their nineteenth century dress...
...event, increased loans and job opportunities will undoubtedly be counted upon to help keep the College enrollment representative, according to the University officials. The bulk of the loan funds will continue to come from the Boston Loan Fund, founded in the early nineteenth century, and now worth well over a million dollars...
...Queen Victoria were in the Royal box while Emlyn William reads Dickens, the scene would be complete. For costumed as Dickens in nineteenth century evening clothes and a massive beard, Williams recreates a dignified and genteel era. His copy of Block House is on the red velvet reading stand only for the sake of appearance, since Williams recites unfalteringly his adaptation of the bulky novel. Rearranging and shortening the stands of the initiate plot. Williams presents a version of Bleak House which the listener can follow with case and pleasure...
...tremendous increase cannot entirely be laid to a growing University population, which has only tripled since the late nineteenth century...
Through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, it was the maids not the students who had grounds for complaint. They workeds even days a week, including vacations, under the harsh eye of the janitors. The rounds took six hours or more, starting at eight a.m., and they dared not stop for rest or food lest they be fired. Every Friday they lined up in front of Memorial Hall to wait for their pay, which even in the days of the 37-cent-an-hour minimum wage, never rose above 32 cents...