Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...variation on this disinfecting theme last week was the suicide of mat-bearded Jan Gamarnik, Vice-Commissar for Defense. His death came month after the demotion of Defense Vice-Commissar Mikhail Nikolaivich Tukhachevsky (TIME, May 31). Gamarnik, 43, had been a member of the Communist Party since 1916. After the civil war he became head of all political work in the Red Army, was given the special title of "Military Commissar of the First Rank" when, in 1935, five generals were raised to the newly created rank of Marshal. After his death it was officially revealed that he was "connected...
...popular of this type was The Founding of Australia by Algernon Talmadge (see cut). It shows Australia Explorer Capt. Arthur Phillip and his officers, spick & span in white breeches and cocked hats, drinking a toast to the Union Jack under the eucalyptus trees at Sydney Cove. Only different in theme was a painstakingly accurate view of one of Britain's great football crowds, Chelsea v. Arsenal at Stamford Bridge by Charles Cundall...
...long-promised reminiscences, he was no longer even a front-line sentinel. The tide of literary battle had flowed over him, left him well in the rear, guarding nothing more strategic than a few abandoned ammunition dumps. How his militant literary career soared so far is the explicit theme of Before I Forget; why it never rose far is the implicit question which between-the-line readers may be able to answer for themselves...
...organ recital, Professor Davison, assisted by Evangeline Merritt, soprano, will present "Prelude," Vlerne; "Air," Bandel; "Air do Lia," Debussy; "Pastorale," Franck; "Ich wandte mich," and "Wenn ich mit Menschen and mit ngelszungen redete," Brahms; "Patron das macht der Wind," Rach; "Sur un theme Breton," Rpoparts; and "Austrian Hymn," Paine. This will be the last public organ recital of the current academic year...
...Rakoczy March from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz *Overture to "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Fugato on a well-known theme McBride *Hungarian Dances (Nos. 5 and 6) Brahms Chorus with Orchestra: Harvard Glee Club--G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor March of the Peers, from "Iolanthe" Sullivan Two Italian Folk Songs Tarantella (Prologue to the Harvard Classical Club play of 1936) Elliot Carter '30 *Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounow" Moussorgsky *Bolero Ravel Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson '30 *The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Symphonic paraphrase by L. Cailliet) *"Up the Street," March Morse...