Word: though
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With that rare burst of intelligence which comes now and then even to non-Socialists, Mr. Francis adds, "had . . . this . . . man been distributing Salvation Army propaganda ... he would have been just as liable to arrest, though whether he would have been arrested or not is another question...
Then there is the college-musical or "Good News" type of film, of which "Sweetie"--where the action, as a matter of fact, takes place in a prep school, though the films have little interest in the difference--is considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson...
...true, though, that three recent pictures in which the musical numbers have been added, in the stage, rather than-the screen, manner have proved reasonably successful. They are "Rio Rita," "The Hollywood Revue" and "The Cocoanuts," but in each case there has been an explanation that prevents destruction of the aforementioned theory. "Rio Rita" is frankly a photograph of a famous Ziegfeld success and it has proved popular for the reason that it provides at small cost an opportunity for the general populace to see the work of a nationally publicized showman. "The Hollywood Revue" could hardly fail since almost...
...organized Business School, Inter-Fraternity, Inter-Dormitory and Independent touch football leagues number 201. Intramural football is third with 173 of which 98 played class and 75 Freshman inter-dormitory football. Then follow track with 76, Freshman inter-dormitory crew with 72 and cross country with 45. Though it has been impossible to complete the statistics at this time, the number of students participating in organized intramural activities only is very nearly 850--an increase of about 50 over last fall...
...require nearly 1,000 additional rooms for undergraduates in order to supply them with proper housing and we should need to proceed in this matter even though we did not enter upon the so-called House Plan...