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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", which is scheduled definitely for performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the spring. Not since 1927 has the Glee Club presented this composition, (this was on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Beethoven's death), nor had it been presented for many years prior to that...
Accompanied by Hollywood Producer Hal Roach, Vittorio Mussolini, 21. eldest son of Il Duce, sailed on the Rex for the U. S., where he will learn U. S. movie production methods prior to starting an Italian company backed 50% by Producer Roach...
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an amazingly fresh version of the triangle indicated in its tired title. That any plot as old as this (most recent prior use: MGM's Between Two Women) can be given a new dress is a minor miracle of screen technique. It has been achieved by application of the dramatic law which holds that any situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took...
Freshmen start practice this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 2 o'clock where they will be met by their coach, Skip Stahley. Equipment can be drawn any time prior to that, and Freshmen are expected to be ready to go at that hour although enforced late arrivals will not be held against the candidates...
...invariably is added to the handicap-and what a handicap! . . . One after another, leading race tracks are adopting as their stellar attraction [this] form of race, started not so many years ago by certain trainers whose horses were of such popularity that terms could be demanded prior to the publication of the conditions. It is called a handicap, but it certainly is not an open handicap, and I have tried to think of a name with which to characterize this outrageous travesty on the turf's great races. There is only one-the sucker handicap. The size...