Word: speak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring. The remainder of the solemn, slow-moving picture was filmed in the French monastery of La Trappe, to enter which Director Alexandre needed to employ as much wire-pulling and salesman ship as he did in making Cloistered. The Trappist monks, one of the strictest of Catholic orders, speak to one another only by signs, and permitted Director Alexandre no special staging, no retakes. A much better job of photography, the Trappist sequence of Monastery is more sombre than the St. Bernard, shows such Trappist activities as the monks washing one another's feet, burying a black-robed...
...through the ideas of his parents, to regard society as static and immovable. College exposes him to more liberal thought; but at the same time his teachers, failing to realize that in him is the power to interpret for society by sheer inspiration the sum of knowledge, speak uncompromising dogma. By indifferently tolerating the student's enthusiasm, they tend to make him doubt his own ideals. But still persisting, youth enters the world, the exhortations of commencement orators in his cars, only to find all doors closed. Deprived of his rightful command when in the prime of life, like...
Roscoe Pound, University Professor, and former Dean of the Law School, will speak tonight in the University broadcast on "The Future of Law." The lecture will be broadcast at 8 o'clock over station WIXAL...
...theatre, were stopped on dress rehearsal night by a mysterious order from above. Now, without benefit of Government, they present it on their own bare stage for special performances. Author Blitzstein sits on the stage, plays his music, occasionally joins the actors as they step forward to sing or speak his pieces. If this method is from necessity-the famous, misnamed Russian Realistic Theatre uses it from choice and with stunning effect-it proves, nevertheless, that if a playwright has enough to say he needs neither sets nor costumes to help him say it. What Mr. Blitzstein...
Major Albert W. Stevens, lecturer in Aerophotography, will speak tomorrow evening at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, at 8 o'clock, on "High Altitude Flying By Airplane." The lecture will be free and open to the public...