Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gordon Scannell '36, of Jamaica Plain, was chosen also to be the Varsity swimming manager next year...
...etiquet, his successor should not have been named until after Bessborough finishes presiding at the King's Silver Jubilee ceremonies in Canada. But George V's popularity in his dominions is more important to the Government than Bessborough's personal feelings. Therefore, last week plain John Buchan was named Governor-General...
...whose locale is closer to home, is another matter entirely. Transforming the audience into a meeting of a New York taxicab union. Playwright Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have sold out the cabdrivers to the fleet owners, are trying to prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one Lefty, pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious, brief flashbacks, indicating...
...Oldster Giovanni Martinelli had not rushed on to take his place. A new Tosca at the Metropolitan is bound to be compared with other singers who have made the role seem great. There were people in last week's audience who remembered Milka Ternina, dramatically exciting but plain to look at. Emma Eames had beauty but her emotions were chilled. In pre-War days Olive Fremstad and Geraldine Farrar were rivals for the role. Fremstad, at heart a Wagnerian, played it like a lioness. Farrar's conception was small, a little petulant. After Maria Jeritza's first...
PEACE AND THE PLAIN MAN-Norman Angell-Harper ($2.50). Plain facts about war & peace lucidly marshalled by 1933's Nobel Peace Prize winner, author of The Great Illusion...