Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sean O'Casey, noted Irish dramatist, delivered the first of the Morris Gray lectures to a large audience in the Fogg Lecture Room yesterday afternoon. Taking as his theme for exposition "The Old Drama and the New," O'Casey quickly won the assemblage with his rich Irish brogue, and proceeded to give a pleasing and exceedingly informal dissertation upon the relative merits of modern and Elizabethan dramatic technique. The modernists, needless to say, emerged a very poor second...
...scenes is artistic and adds greatly to the interpretation of the story. The photography is excellent. The movie plot follows Tolstoy's story for the most part and gives a realistic picture of peasant life and modes of thinking in an age now rapidly becoming past history. The love theme is treated subtly and with a finesse too rare in most pictures today...
...Harvard Debating Council has refused to discuss over a transatlantic network a subject suitable only for a minor English A theme. Since both teams desire the same side of the censorship question, it remains to suggest a better theme. "Resolved: that the United States and Great Britain should immediately act to stabilize the dollar and pound sterling" is eminently debatable, of great public interest and important enough to merit the serious attention of the representatives of two great universities. Indications are that the debate will not take place unless some such vital question is discussed...
...Grammar of Love" contains ten stories, eight of which had not been translated into English before. They vary greatly in subject matter and demonstrate Bunin's work at widely different times of his career. The central theme of the collection, however, is love. His treatment is realistic and the reader is impressed emotionally, psychologically, and philosophically by the power of the author to transmit these instinctive feelings and thoughts by a mere description of material things. It is by allusion and implication that these realistic descriptions become more than more enumerations and the subtle skill of Bunin in arranging...
...good boilermaker but he wanted to sing in opera. So he left East Berlin, Conn., changed his name to Mack Sennett, went to Manhattan to seek his fortune. That was in 1906. How he struggled and prospered, and how a little mouse got him in the end is the theme of Gene Fowler's Father Goose. For once biographer and subject are an almost perfect match. Readers who never saw a Keystone comedy will have a hard time restraining their whoops as Gene Fowler unreels this fantastic slapstick-story of Hollywood success...