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...Pond will be the third incumbent of the Charles Eliot Professorship of Landscape Architecture, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. Three other promotions in the Harvard Faculty were also announced...
Professor Pond has been an associate professor of Landscape Architecture since 1928. The chair to which he succeeds was established in 1903 by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson in memory of their son Nelson Robinson Jr. There have been two incumbents; the last, Professor J. S. Pray, held the chair from 1915 until his death in February, 1929. Pond received his degree of S. B. from Dartmouth in 1907, and the degree of M.L.A. from Harvard in 1911. He was an assistant in Landscape Architecture in 1908-09 and has been teaching uninterruptedly at Harvard from 1914 to the present...
...Brought a New Kind of Love to Me and Livin' in the Sunlight (Columbia)?Paul Whiteman offers elaborate orchestrations of The Big Pond hits...
...Pond (Paramount). This is another film that has been tailored?far less elaborately than The Love Parade?to the measure of Maurice Chevalier. It is successful because of Chevalier's ability to convince his audiences that he enjoys what he is doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter?Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a little lower and a chorus thrown in The Big Pond could easily...
...taken this reviewer exactly twenty-one reels--or, in translation, three pictures--for the revelation to come. Which revelation consists in the single fact that Maurice Chevalier, playing at the Metropolitan in "The Big Pond", is unaccountably unable to sing. Doubtless, there are many of his minions who will be ready to defend him despite the revelation, but anyway there it is and you can't get around Revelations. Which critical appreciation of Monsieur Chevalier's vocal talents being summarily disposed of, there remains only a bit of a word about the picture...