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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wishful of drawing no conclusions himself. Fort constantly trembles on the verge of dark sayings. When he cannot contain himself, instead of putting the suggestion in his own mouth he says: "The expression is. . . ." The expression is, then, that a hitherto unnoticed swan was discovered in Manhattan's Central Park near the place and time Dorothy Arnold (famed lost girl) disappeared; that the stars, in stead of being inconceivably far away and wandering individually are probably within rocket-shot and set in a revolving shell (Ptolemaic astronomy;. Says Fort: ''Of course the stars are near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heretic* | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Imperial Opera. Her U. S. debut was at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. The performance began at 11:00 p. m. The audience kept her dancing and bowing for two hours. Later with her own company she produced many elaborate ballets but most memorable was her simple Swan Dance at the end of which, bravely dying, she crumpled into a pitiful, feathery heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of a Swan | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...Grant defeated W. D. Swan, Jr., 15-12, 18-16, 18-15; W. S. summers defeated W. N. Tuttle, 15-13, 12-15, 18-16; L. A. Brack, Jr., defeated F. W. Davis, 15-18, 15-9, 15-12, 11-15, 15-6; D. W. Sargent defeated R. Davis, 18-15, 15-9, 15-6; R. C. Vose, Jr., defeated Dowling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH TEAMS WIN ALL BUT ONE MATCH | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...committee in charge, headed by E. W. Soucy '16, and consisting of W. B. Felton '19, M. J. Logan '15, L. H. Leary '04, and Caroll Swan '01, is expecting over 1200 graduates and members of the club to attend the larger function...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Victory Dinner" Will Close 1930 Football Season Tonight | 12/12/1930 | See Source »

...Christina Affeld Davidson, of Cambridge, will direct the play. Mrs. Davidson has been prominently identified with the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club and with the Radcliffe Idler Society, for whom she directed "The Swan," and "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." Previous to her residence in Cambridge, she acted with Sothern and Marlowe in Shakespearean repertoire, and subsequently appeared in the Stagers' New York revival of W.S. Gilbert's comedy, "Engaged." She has also appeared in Belasco productions in support of Frances Starr, and played for a season opposite Lionel Barrymore in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." She is a graduate of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MRS. DAVIDSON TO DIRECT DRAMATIC CLUB PRODUCTION | 11/25/1930 | See Source »

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