Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Precious. Complete and unassumed inanity is often the means whereby pretty women entice money out of old and stupid men. On this despondent theme, James Forbes (The Famous Mrs. Fair, The Show Shop) constructed this sometimes witty but usually laggard little farce, which was mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young...
...Department of Music will give a piano recital in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening. In addition to playing selections from the works of Chopin, Brahms, and Wagner, Professor Ballantine will play by special request his own variations on the theme of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the manner of ten composers. D. A. MacKinnon 3G, baritone, will render a group of songs...
...room of the Union on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by Davidson Summers 2L, graduate secretary of the Union. In addition to playing selections from the works of Chopin, Brahms, and Wagner, Professor Ballantine will give by special request his own variations on the theme of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the manner of ten composers. D. A. Mackinnon 3G, baritone, will render a group of songs...
...Jesuit historian has recently called the early history of Harvard "one of the brilliant pageants of American history," a pageant of which the "real theme is courage and devotion; courage under conditions which would seem to stifle all human effort save an avid grubbing for food and housing, devotion to the fine ideal of disciplining the human intellect and human will." One might add that the courage was largely Dunster's, and in devotion no one was his equal. Harvard College might even have followed its founder to an early death and oblivion, but for the lively faith, the serene...
...than a classical melody which Gershwin has written in a jazz idiom. I think that this jazz adaptation in no way decreases the merit of the selection, but, on the contrary, any other manner of presentation, for in stance, the classical, would have completely altered the charm of the theme. Then, too, you must, consider that Gershwin speaks well only in a jazz vein and he might have meased things up if he had attempted to do anything so far out of his line as to do anything in a classical...