Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening program under this new plan is interesting in its variety: Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet," and Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus" were given. This was the first presentation of "Fame and the Poet" on any stage, and Lord Dunsany, who attended the premiere, declared himself highly satisfied with the treatment which his work received from the hands of the amateurs. "Erasmus Montanus," by Holberg, "the Moliere of the North," won the better notices of the two plays. But the eighteenth-century satirist has yet to catch the popular taste...
...with the pious assurance that world communism will somehow triumph in the end. No fool, M. Stalin was apparently engaged last week in ingratiating himself with the "pure" Communists to whom he is something of a heretic, however potent. The way seemed clear to introduce before the conference a program of action skilfully masking the "conservative" policies of "Boss" Stalin behind a screen of fervent Leninist oratory...
...Comanche, Arapahoe, Creek, Sioux, Winnebago, Ute, Pueblo, Navajo-all to the number of 1,500. Despite the intellectual salutation of Mr. White Calf, the assemblage did not have the air of a racial group gathered around their school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing in the new stadium (which cost $250,000 and was given entirely by Indians) - dancing of a nature which moved local ministers to protest that it "tended to cultivate the baser instincts of the Indian...
...progress of the native movement in China and adjacent countries," said the report, "American leadership no longer is paramount there."* Presumably reference was made to the fact that the Asiatic "Y" has long been selfsupporting. Wealthy mandarins, Confucians, Buddhists contribute. Curtailment of Asiatic activity was recommended, and extension of program for South America, where "recent developments have opened opportunity...
...think the most impressive fact in the last year's experience in business is that the industry shipped over 700,000 automobiles to foreign countries." One man was exceedingly happy at the convention. He was Thomas Edward Wilson, who has worked hard on the Institute's educational program. His concern, Wilson & Co., last week announced an initial dividend of 3½% on its preferred stock, the first since its recent re-organization under court direction...