Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imprint of the Yale University Press, The Higher Learning in America is the sum of Robert Maynard Hutchins' observations as Dean of the Yale Law School, as President of the University of Chicago and as an exceedingly lively, sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued critic of the U. S. educational scene...
...Chance-This scene of medical levity was sombrely interrupted when Dr. Claude Shaeffer Beck, skillful Cleveland surgeon whose preferred operative area is the heart, rumbled: "The death rate from sclerosis of the coronary arteries is appalling. Of the physicians who died during the first half of this year 14.6% were given a diagnosis of coronary thrombosis, coronary sclerosis or angina pectoris...
...Stage Door, as in any Kaufman-directed show, there is something funny going on most of the time, whether it be the saturnine reflections of a girl whose 15-year-old sister is said to be as innocent as Mata Hari, or an all too realistic Times Square bedroom scene in which Terry and her roommate shout good night to each other, blindfold themselves and attempt to go to sleep amid a roaring, flashing hell of metropolitan night life. Swing Your Lady (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson; Milton Shubert, producer). In the training quarters of a large Greek wrestler named...
Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
...last scene is an ornate hotel room in Geneva, where more machinations have disrupted a disarmament conference. A U. S. journalist (Otto Hulett), who has been "selling his soul'' by writing jingoistic trash for a U. S. jingo newspaper tycoon, decides to stop it even if it costs him his job, reads the riot act to Zacharey, loudly swears to spend the rest of his life exposing...