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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's selection of plays is no exception to the rule of excellence. The most important fact in connection with last season was the trend toward a realisation of native values in American life. Many plays definitely American were produced successfully, and the four conspicuous ones are reproduced by Mr. Mantle. Future historians of the drama will look back with interest on poet Maxwell Anderson's "Valley Forge" and Mare Connelly's colorful picture of Eric Canal life, "The Farmer Takes A Wife." America today is well represented by Sherwood's romantic western comedy, "The Petrified Forest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/15/1935 | See Source »

...creditors were never really worried about getting their money back, though deficits have been a Central rule since 1932. The problem is the carrier's, not its creditors'. But a possible solution developed hot correspondence between hard-hitting Jesse Holman Jones, RFChairman, and hard-hitting Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, executive committee chairman of New York Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dear Jesse: . . . Dear Mr. Vanderbilt: . . . | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...Before carnauba wax was first used commercially about 50 years ago beeswax was used for polishes. Today most beeswax goes into Catholic altar candles, which must be at least 51% beeswax to meet an old Church law based on the supposed virginity of bees. No such rule governs votive candles, sold in great numbers to the faithful. These may be made of ordinary stearic acid and paraffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wax Hunt | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Here a type has been created, early in the 18th Century, which will influence American college buildings, with local and periodic variations, up to the Revolution. The red "Harvard Brick" has remained the dominant material in all Harvard's later buildings. As a rule, departures from it have been unfortunate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building For Business--Groping for Grandeur | 10/12/1935 | See Source »

...guiding rule of France's foreign policy is to provide as many alies as possible in the advent of a much-feared German invasion," stated William L. Langer '15, associate professor of History, at Dunster House last night, commenting on France's assent to the British request for military co-operation in the Mediterranean under a condition of reciprocity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: France's Alliance With Britain in Mediterranean Fits in With Policy of Protection From Invasion, Says Langer | 10/8/1935 | See Source »

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