Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room where her inebriated guests are querulously listening to the barkings of a rolltop radio. The death of the villainess removes the last element of gaiety from the picture, permits Phillips Holmes, as a mustachioed playboy, and Miriam Hopkins, as a nice girl from the West, to obtain parental consent for matrimony. The involved train of events in Two Kinds of Women?adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's play This is New York?makes for comedy of a sort. One reason it fails to achieve it, is possibly Phillips Holmes, whose gloomy, dazzled and polite impersonation is identical, except...
...associates, has interviewed many students and has done much to educate their opinions, both of themselves and of the vocations they desire. The year and a half of the office's existence is too limited to give a definite estimate of its real value, for results can only be obtained and sufficiently analyzed over a prolonged period of time. But any student can now obtain information on all manner of careers from Mr. Putnam. He can read literature on every phase of the world's work. He can enjoy interviews with competent men connected with the field in which...
...failure of the Cambridge School of the Drama has brought at least one consolation. It has allowed the Harvard Dramatic Club to obtain the advantages of possessing a well-equipped theatre of its own without having to support it on box-office receipts. The Dramatic Club has always been hampered by lack of equipment and its choice of plays and frequency of production have been limited because of the necessity of financial return. Although the offer of the Rogers Building is only a temporary measure it may well lead to a permanent development on the part of the Dramatic Club...
Moreover the failure of the school to obtain any financial support whatever indicates that for the present at least there is no strong desire for dramatic instruction at Harvard. No doubt the depression increased the school's difficulty in acquiring funds. Nevertheless a slight response might have been expected if there had been any widespread and serious desire for a drama school at Harvard...
...work done in the Drama school, as seriously as by their financial difficulties. The fact that students in the school also had to carry their full schedule of college courses made it impracticable for many to join who would otherwise have done so. So long as such conditions obtain, it is doubtful if a flourishing dramatic school can be established at Harvard...