Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Souvenirs" which followed it. On the stage James E. Barton acts the drunk, sings, dances, and paniomimes while the audience adjourns, or wishes it could, to the smoking room. Continuing this, Beatrice Powell gives an impersonation of Schuossle Durante which is too much like him to be pleasant, but her idea of Mae West assisted by the Broadway Beauties is amusing especially when some of the chorines forget which way to turn and become considerably scrambled. Last but not least, in their estimation, are The Four Trojans, who gyrate and tumble to the tune of "The Stein Song...
...sales," is part of the ritual of the Detection Club, devised by such members as Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton. Year ago appeared The Floating Admiral, joint production of 13 members, a chapter by each. But most of the infrequent and irregular meetings are given over to pleasant shop talk, the hilarious initiation of new members...
...science. In Physics D the lectures and demonstrations are of a high order, and while the underlying thought of the course is that men taking it are not primarily going on to advanced scientific work, the course is an entirely satisfying course, with Professor Crawford's stimulating lectures a pleasant guide to the sometimes involved paths of the subject. Laboratory work has been revised, with comprehensive and improved apparatus available to the men in the course...
...course instructive. Some time is spent in a practical discussion of color effects and photography before more theoretical though elementary considerations of the phenomena of physical optics are taken up. There are five three hour laboratory periods. The scientific student will continue with 2b, and remember 2a as a pleasant introduction to the study of light. The student whose interests are not primarily scientific will do better to take Physics...
...good, though long closeups of Cadel Zeddin registering speechlessness are a bit trying. Probably three of the six reels are taken up with hand-kissing and heel-clicking. Trude ron Molo, the mother, is a good actress, but gets little opportunity to be anything more than pleasant. There is, however, an under able fascination about life in German military schools which perhaps compensates for the mediocrity of other aspects of the production...