Word: par
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university undoubtedly contribute to the failure to receive the public recognition, the merits of the college would seem to deserve. By and large, however, it is the absence of renowned scholars on the faculty which leads amateur observers to assume that Dartmouth is not on a par with some of her more publicized sisters...
...stage show is below par for the Met. However, Fablen Sevitaky and the Elida Ballet prevent it from totally slipping off the deep...
Neither NRA, AAA, devaluation of dollar nor Government spending are so dear to Franklin Roosevelt's heart as the Public Utility Act. To him distrust of holding companies is on a par with love of trees. Not an official word did he utter when he heard the news from Baltimore, but in the first week of the critical 52 he saw that an unpleasant choice would soon be forced upon him: to suppress his personal feelings for the Public Utility Act while legal taunts and political insults are heaped upon it, or to carry the fight against holding companies...
Pride and Prejudice (adapted by Helen Jerome; Max Gordon, producer;. Nothing in this show is below par except the antiques which dress the Regency setting for Jane Austen's marital sweepstakes. Playwright Jerome has caught in her script a goodly quantity of Novelist Austen's sly, introverted wit, and Director Robert Sinclair has seen that a splendid cast of actors conduct themselves with all the foolish elegance and witless frivolity of the period...
...lineup of musical shows is short but very above par. "Anything Goes" with William Gaxton, Victor Moore and Benay Venuta intoning Cole Porter's lyrical efforts is in its fifty-first week and a fine thing it is. "At Home Abroad" which opened in Boston a bit too early for the college boys is a magnificently staged revue with a glittering cast ranging all the way from Auntie Bea Lillie's mad antics to Paul Haakon's very impressive modern terpsichore, and including the talented toes of Eleanor Powell and the powerful dusky notes of Ethel Waters. "Jubilee," another Boston...