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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emphasizing in his report the important role of the consultants who will be drawn from public service for work in the new school, Dean Williams said, "It is the consultantship program which most clearly differentiates the work of the School from the more usual sort of instruction in the social sciences...
When Hollywood develops a habit, nor life, nor death, nor things present, nor things to come . . . nor any other creature shall be able to separate it from the love of making that one sort of picture. The latest fad is drama filmed in the throbbing heart of India, replete with blood-thirsty native revolutionaries and Oxford accented imperialists. "Gunga Din," which begins its regular run at Keith's today, is the most recent piece de resistance...
...Smith goes crashing down toward the Lowell cage, battering the puck about like an old shoe. The usual result of such a foray into enemy territory is a terrific 10-man collision, the nucleus of which is the man with the puck. There is no escaping this sort of defense. Then Lowell's Bud Doering takes the misshapen rubber disk that has been beaten to a pulp by the Winthrop bludgeons, and careens down the ice until by the time he crosses the blue line nothing is seen but a blur with skates on. At this point another ear-splitting...
...that she had taken the dog, promising to give him a good home. Now Scooty knew a few tricks, and she was sure the aunt would let tiny Tim take him back if only Scooty could be allowed to bark to Auntie over the radio. This was just the sort of schmalz We, the People wanted, but when the woman arrived, after due publicity she brought no dog. Suspicion was that there had never been one. But the show went on, with a rented dog who yelped convincingly enough when the sound effects man pulled his tail...
Last week Ives's Second Pianoforte Sonata, almost entirely neglected since he completed it in 1915, got its first Manhattan performance at a recital by enterprising U. S. Pianist John Kirkpatrick. Composer Ives's long-unheard work turned out to be a sort of musical equivalent to Author Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp...