Word: reviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigor and spontaneity which marks the first act of the Pudding show compare so favorably with a Broadway production that it is only fair to subject "Foemen of the Yard" to a critical review. Catchy music, fetching chorines, capable comics, and amusing situations combine to make the audience as enthusiastic as the cast. As a result, it is inevitable that one feels just a little disappointed to discover that the second and much shorter act constantly threatens to develop into a routine affair...
...refer here to the unfortunate hesitancy and suspicion with which student organizations at Harvard have reacted to the invitation of the Continuations Committee of the Armistice Day Anti-War Conference requesting participation in a sane review of the peace problem. But the CRIMSON's success in creating the erroneous impression that Anti-War Strike, N.S.L. and Communism are synonymous terms has prevented wide and whole-hearted support of a move which it has itself editorially supported namely, the promotion of peace. Until last year's affair can be forgotten, or unless the CRIMSON takes steps to rectify its inadvertancy, only...
...been said that either too complete praise or vituperation withdraws all merit from a criticism. We hestitate to withdraw all worth from our review of "The Little Friend" now at the Fine Arts, nevertheless we intend to adopt an attitude of complete admiration. In all the welter of gigantic, colossal, insignificant movies, it is a real pleasure to praise one that is not planned on a grand scale, makes no pretensions to greatness, yet in yet very sincerity, in the dramatic power of a graceful little girl, reaches the heights...
With the war-scare headlines simmering down to more announcements of mild notes of protest by England to Germany and similar action in the offing by France and Italy, world citizenry can once more relax and review the situation calmly over the breakfast coffee. Hitler, with his usual flair for the dramatic, has timed the action to the minute and left the other countries gasping for wind...
Then the country's highest tribunal changed its mind, consented to review. The ruling handed down last week left Mr. Fox without a leg to stand on. In substance the Court declared that the Fox patents had not been infringed, that they were not valid. Reason: lack of "novelty and invention." The practice of printing a single positive film from separately developed negatives had long been known, was free to anyone to apply to sound-recording systems. The flywheel was the property of mankind. As long ago as 1879 Thomas Edison found he could not patent the flywheel...