Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock Fritz Kreisler will be at Symphony Hall to offer a program varying from Bach to De Falla. And that evening the State Symphony Orchestra features Tschaikowsky's Second Symphony in another Sanders Theatre concert. The reaction to a first hearing of this group tends to be surprisingly pleasant, and an added point of interest this week will be the world premiere of "Epic Poem" by a Harvard graduate, Arthur Korb '30. Alexander Thiede will conduct...
...student who has had the misfortune to go on probation, or who has unsuccessfully violated the parietal rules, or whose term bill for last June remains unpaid, University Hall is not a pleasant place to visit. But, to those in good standing, or with an honest desire to regain good standing, University Hall and the deans therein might be likened to an oasis of solid advice beckoning to the bewildered or negligent who flounder in scholarly quicksand...
...entertainment, the story is pleasant enough to follow. All things considered, Mr. Taylor acts convincingly as the rich young wastrel who, after causing one death through his wilfullness, falls in with the Douglas philosophy and, reforming, saves a second life which he might also have wasted through the same wilfullness. More specifically, he becomes the famous eye doctor who restores the sight of female interest and chief stooge Irene Dunne when everyone had said it was impossible...
...academic centres scattered throughout the U. S. students of the arts last week were gathering for a pleasant series of conferences on the cinema. In these courses no examinations were to be given, and no marks: all the "students" had to do was sit and look. Material for the course was the rich store of reprinted films (dating from 1895) gathered for the film library of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Cinemarchivists John E. Abbott and Iris Barry (his wife). For rental of their films, the museum charged $125 for 5 series of programs...
There are several fine football sequences, a couple of pleasant songs, Sweet Varsity Sue (lyrically reminiscent of Betty Co-ed of several years back) and Why Talk About Love. Best shots: the Ritzes face down in the mud after a pile up over a loose ball, with a following shot of the imprints their angular bodies have left...