Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stalling's Share. The scene is New Orleans in 1830-Creole days when gentlemen worthy of the name kept two establishments, one for the white women lawfully theirs, another for quadroons who found their favor. One M. Brusard, proudest of all Creoles, is betrayed by his mistress, seeks another, finds Mugette, lovely, desirable, almost white. Strangers happen by Kentuckians, staggering drunk but thirsty still for liquor and for women like their own to be their slaves. Pistol shots; and one intruder is dead, the other enamored of Mugette. A voodoo scene, and Mugette begs a charm...
Harling's Share. "Not jazz at all," some said but they were the ones whose senses were too dull to catch the relentless one-two-three-four beat that pulsed its way through the second act. They had looked for trick instruments, screeches, yowlings, offensive percussives, and there was none of that. But even the untutored ones felt instinctively that then they were hearing the best music of the piece. The first and last acts are mostly dialogue sprinkled here and there with an aria of the light opera type, pretty, trite, unsuitable to snorting drama. The second...
...that America enters. What railway bonds Europeans do not buy, will go, at the urgent request of the French, to Americans. For French industry depends somewhat on the pending dent to secure its stability and raise the rate of exchange of the franc. The rattle of American gold may share in the concert of Europe...
This was not in any sense a glance from an undergraduate ivory tower at the waste lands of the graduate school. Nor did it share any of the traditional provincialism of youthful college smugness. Of course the graduate schools are not in need of the Salvation Army or the Red Cross. But these men who come here to Harvard and are to carry the name of the University on their degrees should realize in some manner the spirit of the place and in some manner, tied as they are to their professional work, appreciate that delightful existence which...
...eminent Greek professor once gave as a reason for the study of that language the feeling of quiet superiority a Greek scholar was able to maintain over the vast majority of people who did not share in his accomplishments. And so with the Photographic Department of the CRIMSON...