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Assisted by members of the Polar Hear Club, who revel in such work, and by two 2-ton trucks belonging to the Maintenance Department the Puritans cleared an area of over 200 yards along Mill street, making available ample room for the swanky cars of the eager dancers...
...wrong profession; his philosophy of teaching is all wrong. He is evading his duty. He is not a good teacher and never will be, if his remark is an accurate comment on his attitude toward his job. Harvard is not interested in aesthetic young men who revel in the intellectual atmosphere that pervades these cloistered walls, sipping their tea and sweet cocktails while drawing salaries to be of service to slightly younger men, who, perhaps, don't like sweet cocktails nor even intellectual atmosphere, but who, nevertheless, pay their tuition for assistance in educating themselves...
That evening Franklin Roosevelt was 54 and the Gang, including White House Secretaries Marvin Mclntyre and Stephen Early, Thomas Lynch, Appraiser of the Port of New York, Stanley Prenosil, a Manhattan businessman and Kirke Simpson of the Associated Press, held private revel in the White House. So far as most of the U. S. was concerned, the President's real birthday party was divided into some 7,000 parts, scattered in some 5,000 U. S. cities and towns, attended by an estimated 5,000,000 guests and yielding a net profit of over...
...right-hand man (Lynne Overman) are dismayed when Craig's aunt wills him a young ladies' seminary. The plot takes its expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether cinemaddicts will enjoy the picture will depend essentially on their feeling about...
...Revel. In Old Moscow last week was held the first Carnival permitted by earnest Bolsheviks since the Revolution of 1917. With returning bourgeois gaiety, 100,000 Russians were encouraged to enjoy a madcap masked revel which lasted nearly all night in the Park of Culture & Rest, the State supplying masks and soft drinks, with all alcoholic tipples barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted...