Word: perfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some perfect attendance records were made by Frazier Curtis, Torbert MacDonald, and Gus Soule of the Freshman class and Ken Booth '39, Myron Cohen '39, Richard Hedblom '39, Howard Johnson '39, and Ray Jones '39. Harlow would make no statement on the makeup of next year's squad, but said that it would consist of 37 players to be selected from a list...
...Berlin sat pale-faced, intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew who was arrested last December for plotting to kill with a bomb "a high German official" who newshawks quickly assumed was Dictator Hitler. Hirsch declared: "I expect no clemency and I am calm and await death with perfect composure." Less calm was Berlin's U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen because his grandfather was. This week U. S. consular officials...
Curtain Call (by LeRoy Bailey; Quigley-Schachtel Inc., producers) is interesting as a nearly perfect example of a bad play. In his stage-struck youth. Author Bailey joined the company of the illustrious Eleanora Duse in Pittsburgh, did odd jobs for nothing while he studied backstage life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved...
Such amateurs of the flute as Rockwell Kent and Charles Gates Dawes know how hard it is to play correctly. Great flautists like New York's Georges Barrère or Philadelphia's William Kincaid have taken years to perfect themselves. Flute technique is hard because a flautist cannot see his lips or the air coming from them, but none the less his lips must be properly shaped, his wind properly directed. A flautist does not blow through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column...
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