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...express draws into the station in Subotica (with the station name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Orient Express | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...Public Utilities Economic Theory 25 English 7 34 9-12 15 5-7 19 Drama, Poetry Eliz. Prose, Poet. 16th & 17th Cent. Infl. of Fr. Lit. on Eng. Lit. of 16th Century Hist of Eng Lang Eng. Drama Eliz. Lit. Jacobean Lit. Carolin Lit. Eng. Prosidy Eng. & Slav. Lit. Novel 17th & 19th Cent. Poetry & Comp. Contemporary Lit. American Lit. Composition Fine Arts Geol. Sci. 4 2 4 10 1-2 German 2 Government 17-23 6 5-7 3 6 8 7-8 Int'nat'l Relations Federal Gov. & Pol. Theory Political Theory Eut. Pol. Institu. Party Politics & Federal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Number of Men Who Can Be Tutored in Each Field and Special Fields Represented | 3/6/1935 | See Source »

...manages to make reviews of works by Messer Herbert Agar and Will Durant pinch-hit for his missing editorials. The first of these reveals in a few well-chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this there is not hide nor hair of H. L. to be found, and this commentator believes that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 10/6/1933 | See Source »

...musical themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World." The whistling epidemic that has swept Harvard since "42nd Street" was the child not of single renditions of "Shufile Off to Buffalo," "I'm Young and Healthy," etc. but of the almost constant playing of all of these tunes through the entire six reels...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...tale of a canny matriarch has palled. Mme Leroy-Gomez (Helen Haye) raises her two elegant sons to prey on women, undergoes many a humorous travail keeping their shoulders to the wheel. One, married to a rich Argentine, almost loses his wife because of an infatuation for a penniless Slav. The other, orchidaceous young Derek Williams (Journey's End) finally agrees to wed a lusty, rich young U. S. divorcee, with the private reservation that he will leave her after three years, use his savings to marry a modiste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Other Plays in Manhattan | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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