Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard will be interested in Laurence Schwab's new musical comedy, "A Perfect Lady", with Constance Binney, which comes to the Shubert Theatre on December 17th, for the holidays. Laurence Schwab '14, the producer, is a Harvard man, and Lee Simonson '10, who designed the costumes and production were identified with theatricals during their years at college. Schwab was active in Hasty Pudding circles as a student and last year made a special trip to Boston to help stage the Hasty Pudding show, bringing with him the expert Sammy Lee, who staged the musical numbers. Since leaving college Mr. Schwab...
...Perfect Lady" will also be interesting because Laurence Schwab is one of the authors of the "book", having collaborated with Frank Mandel, George Gershwin, who wrote the music, B. G. DeSylva, who supplied the Lyrics, Sammy Lee who staged the musical numbers and Lee Simonson, designer of the costumes and stage settings form an interesting group. The piece has its opening acts laid in the garden of a bungalow on the roof of a New York apartment house and its final act in a little settlement high up in the Andes mountains of Peru. A notably strong cast will support...
...other hand, the doors of a bookshop take on an entirely new aspect to him who turns to go. He is assailed with an entirely unforeseen sense of obligation. The jaws of the trap close suddenly. The very unconcern of the salesmen, their perfect willingness to let him be, becomes a burden. He feels something like a moral obligation to buy. It seems the only fitting return for the hospitality of his welcome, for the reassuring absence of the officious floorwalker...
Medically, contraceptive methods are far from perfect. There is no known infallible means except complete abstinence from sex relations. But considerable research has been done which would be stimulated if the illegal aspect were removed. Improved methods may be looked for, and some commonly used, which are injurious to health, could be reduced. Likewise, abortions, estimated (though of course no reliable statistics are possible) at from 500,000 to 2,000,000 yearly in the U. S. would be reduced if preventive methods were more freely available...
...efficient than the best steam turbine, and considered by engineers the "greatest advance in power production in many years," is the latest achievement of the General Electric Co. W. LeR. Emmet, consulting engineer of the Company, is the man behind the boiler. Time will be required to develop and perfect the system, but two of the boilers already exist, one in the laboratories at the Schenectady works, the other in actual and successful operation at a generating station of the Hartford (Conn.) Electric...