Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unveiling of a portrait of Lieut. Commander Joel T. Boone, a White House physician, as well as a graduate.of Mercersburg. She also laid the cornerstone of a new chapel; heard the class ode, the music of which was written by John; heard him receive the fourth prize in English theme writing; heard him give one of eight honorary orations on Perseverance; heard a concert by the Academy Mandolin and Glee Clubs, in the latter of which John sang first bass; heard him given honorable mention as one of the class (of 81) who had been the best influence...
Last week Mr. Coolidge in a memorial speech at Arlington Cemetery pronounced a few short paragraphs on the Court theme...
Perhaps the central theme of the sessions, as is usually the case, was an unqualified demand for the "open shop," for which the N. M. A. has been fighting for years. Yet there were many interesting side issues, such as sympathy for Japan for the recent earthquake, and regret at the tone of Congress' recent stand on Japanese immigration. Apart from a general condemnation of "politicians", Gifford Pinchot was especially attacked as "not the only political coward in the country" and the chief reason for the high price of anthracite coal...
...verses from Mr. Damon and Mr. Hillyer, and a story from Mr. Boyce. Mr. Hillyer's verses ought never to fall of welcome where poetry is loved; Mr. Damon's two contributions are pleasantly and skilfully turned. Mr. Boyce's "The Trail Beyond", a dramatic story on the difficult theme of intense hate, would gain, we feel, from a simpler and more direct treatment. The effort to suggest the vortex of sensations in the hero's mind, sustained as this effort is from beginning to end, cannot help straining at points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat...
Broadway After Dark. Another Cinderella story. Here a man-about-town, world-weary as all men-about-town are in the cinema, dresses up a little boarding house slavey in the height of fashion and turns her loose his society friends. Author and director seem to have scamped their theme, which is the familiar one of clothes making the woman, for they give spectators no scenes in which to determine "what's wrong with this picture." They furnish a quite human and interesting turn to a hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance...