Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just to be near him. In spite of amateurish handling of details (pulled punches in a fight; a fellow knocked into water coming up in dry clothes) Director Asquith gets across the savagery of city railroads...
...playwright's Katerina is a wife unjustly suspected at the start. Her husband attempts to kill her because of his belief that she is unfaithful. The shots stir in her a spirit of rebellion which sends her out, in spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much...
...spite of all these criticisms the acting is good, the voices are well handled, and through a long succession of obvious clinches, apes, lunatics, sliding bolts, and levers that drop floors into underground rivers, one gets a decided feeling of mystery which is well built up until the complete let down at the close...
...Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a member of the Pan-American Commission. "Yes-men" are not chosen for such honors. When he became President of Stanford University he made many radical changes there and formulated policies which were opposed by a large majority of the Alumni, but in spite of this opposition, he did not swerve from the lines he had chosen, and after 15 years, has convinced most of the Alumni of that University that his plans were sound, while at the same time winning for himself a place as one of the foremost educators in the country...
...spite of a lack of first tenors for the Vocal Club and a deficiency in violins, guitars, and cellos for the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, material for the three groups is on the whole good. R. R. White '32 is organizing a jazz orchestra...