Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news, bits of spice, athletic reviews and literary efforts. In an age of differentiation and and specialization it is no doubt better so. However, as these subsidiary activities have been placed in other hands, the literary monthly has been left with more ample opportunity and attention less distracted to perform functions more important and fundamental, to publish the best of undergraduate writing, to allow the newest generation of authors to try its wings in print, to provide a healthy vent for the ideas and abilities of these aspiring writes, and to subject them and their efforts to a healthy criticism...
...season with his cross country men than either of the other two University teams. To see a Crimson football eleven go through a season of straight victories is more than even the most optimistic could hope for, while Coach Carr, with only three letter men back would have to perform prodigies to do anything of the kind. With only three vacant places from last year's team, plenty of good Freshman runners of last year will be fighting for the berths, and it is even possible that they might take more than the three. BY TIME...
...says M. God, bowing deferentially. Arm in arm they march off the stage, not only stop the rebellion but put the servants to work digging them out of the glacier. Because he detests ostentation. M. God has refused to perform any miracles himself...
...demanding money from adult members, most of whom are elected to membership primarily so that they may be assessed. Ability to amuse is also considered, the club's only by-law being that if a member is called upon to entertain and either refuses or fails to perform, he is automatically thrown out. Some Horrible Hemingways: George Newell Armsbyt vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp., and his brother James, San Francisco canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words...
...determination to enter business comes from lack of funds and a desire to marry, but the sacrifice of his esthetic ambition is made unnecessary when a picture painted by the father is judged bad enough to be used in an advertising campaign. Doris Kenyon and Lewis Stone perform ably as the middle-aged couple concerned, but whatever prizes accrue to the cinema should rightly be given to Funnyman Charles Butterworth. In the impersonation of a woebegone author, he states the story's theme: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Later he makes soberly improper advances to a maidservant...