Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zimmerman, whose experience in coaching has combined such extremes as amateur productions for the Salvation Army and coaching for a major film company in Hollywood, has an unusual array of talent and is finding his chief problem to be more in sorting out the best material than in hunting for singing ability. His job is considerably lightened by the excellent music which composers Rotan Sargent, Cammann Newberry and Harold Parsons have contributed to this year's production, notably such tunes as "This is The Night", "Look Your Heart", and "This Is So Sudden", bandleader, announced he would feature several...
...then chucking the whole works every four hundred years leads inevitably to confusion and discontent. It is not only subversive, it is stupid. It is high time that those organizations which concern themselves with the welfare of humanity devote some time and effort, money and thought to a problem that is as vital as it is neglected...
There will be those to maintain that this campaign is a tempest in a teapot, that the problem in reality is non-existent. Let them explain away the incontrovertible evidence that tonight throughout the land women's colleges are having their most important social functions. In the face of this temptation, it cannot be overemphasized that man has a duty to his gender in these tempestuous days. Let him not forget who pays for the corsages when the feminine knee is bent and the roughed lips are popping the question. Let him not forget who pays for the theatre tickets...
...college enviroment again as the background for a tender and beautiful novel, dealing with a highly emotional graduate student in a woman's college who had to use the museum and library of a neighboring male institution for her research. More fundamentally, however, Mr. Osten has faced squarely the problem which Leap Year presents to young women one time in every four years...
...heroine, Gertrude Murphy, is preparing a doctoral dissertation on the relation of fine arts to history; consequently she is forced to use the facilities of both the museum and library for her research. The problem arises when fatally beautiful Gertrude falls in love with Reggie Burlingame, young fine arts instructor and playboy, while at the same time she has become the despair of poor but honest Gregory P. Grupp, assistant at the delivery desk in the library. With telling power the author depicts the struggle that tears the heart of the girl when Leap Year arrives and she knows...