Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Boyden '32, president of the Club, presided over the gathering. Keith Martin '32, manager during the past year, delivered the opening speech on the character and success of the concerts held during the past season. He was followed by M. A. Shattuck '18, graduate manager, who gave a favorable account of the present financial status of the Club considering the difficulties under which it has labored during the current season...
...than Princeton and Yale, and maintains a student employment office, the line has been drawn where it should be; that student waiting, unsatisfactory at the Union, might not be viewed favorably in the Houses, and, since the House Plan is still in an experimental stage, to jeopardize its success would be unwise. The main objection concerns student waiting in itself. In the Harvard of the past there was a too well marked division between wealthy and needy. Today every effort is bent towards placing all members of the University on as nearly equal a footing as possible, and student waiting...
...merits. In fact so similar are they in temper, and in the manner in which the tragedy is developed as a "satire of circumstance" that one suspects that "Three Loves" was written before rather than after "Batter's Castle" and prepared for publication on the strength of the previous success...
...melodic fabric to fit the libretto which Oscar Hammerstein II craftily extracted from Edna Ferber's novel. Paul Robeson was to have sung in the original U. S. production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it. Dennis King was new too as Ravenal, the gambler who marries Cap'n Andy's Magnolia (Norma Terris). Helen Morgan was back as the quadroon with her fluttering...
...Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago. Admiration for Charlie Chaplin is shown in mob scenes, chases and stampedes which follow Chaplin's principles of dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced The Italian Straw Hat, The Phantom of Moulin Rouge. International success began with talking pictures (Sous Les Toits de Paris, Le Million). For all his pictures René Clair writes the story and dialog, directs, cuts and edits...