Word: organizations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hope Hampton produced the agreeably unexpected-a more than good enough voice, a fair acting talent and a head of red hair that in most prima donnas would make up for everything. Here she is occupied in crashing U. S. society with the help of an organ-grinder posing as a prince. There are a few, a very few, jokes...
...Cornell University is the Wilder collection of preserved brains. From their evidence, Dr. James W. Papez, curator, last week concluded scientifically that all physical qualities, such as mass, formation, wrinkles, surface area, prove the female organ equal to the male. Chief among the exhibits in favor of women was the organ of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, ardent feminist but reasonable debater. Live, she had sought to prove such equality in a book, Sex in Brain. Dead (in 1925), she had willed her brain as mute, tangible evidence to clinch the argument. In the Wilder collection last week, no brain...
...feel a certain regret that the score specially composed for the presentation of the picture in New York and Boston and played by a full orchestra cannot be adequately reproduced on the University Theatre organ, but at that the instrument in question does very well indeed. Long artistic prologues and involved orchestral movements do not always make a motion picture,--in fact they have been known to break them...
...newspaper L'Action Francaise on the Index Expurgatorius (thus banning it at once from all Roman Catholic homes). His Holiness' policy was based on the conviction that the wily, obstreperous editors of L'Action were using their paper (devoted to the royalist cause) as the organ of a school of thought whose doctrines are absolutely irreconcilable with Catholicism. The Cardinal's objection was said to be based on a conviction that political activities of royalist Catholics should not be censured by the Pope...
...addition, there are the innumerable organ renditions, traveloques and what nots which never fail to obscure the Metropolitan's main presentation and annoy the audience with their infinite variety. However, this week the entertainment is as balanced and stimulating as even the most critical would expect