Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Music In the Air," Colonial--Music by the consummate artists, Mr. Jerome Kern, and the book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. A large production without the gaudiness of most of the super shows. The old favorites, Al Shean and Reinald Werrenrath perform ably. Last week...
...above all there are the changes introduced by the administration: abolition of all entrance requirements and a consequent broadening of the selective system to fill the gap; appointment of a dean of the faculty who will have direct control and supervision over the curriculum, the better to perform progressive alterations...
...Flight of a Bumblebee react if a red light suddenly flashed on his music stand? If white and blue lights played before him constantly, sometimes at slow speed, sometimes hectically fast? The violinist, claims round, bushy-haired Vladimir Karapetoff, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, would perform better than he does now when all he has to guide him are "the wavy motions of two arms and a recurring expression of rage on a conductor's face." To prove his point Professor Karapetoff has invented a switchboard system of conducting, named it the Electrical Dirigent...
...darkly complex, so fabulously remote from the familiar things of human existence is science's probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe-of light, electricity, gravity, matter-that the language of physicists is becoming metaphysical. Efforts to fit new discoveries to demonstrable theory, or to perform the converse, simply pile paradox on paradox. While U. S. probers have been mostly content to spin new riddles by unearthing new facts in their laboratories, European physicists have tried more & more of late, by sheer sweat of mind, to coordinate, to reconcile, to reduce the areas of conflict among observed phenomena...
...Harlow (Kitty Packard), Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan), Edmund Lowe (Dr. Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart...