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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real harmony of interests existed between captain and coach as it has this season. Frannie Powers, plucky middle-distance free-styler who earned much praise last year for his superb competitive spirit, is back again better than ever. He is expected to concentrate in the 100 and 220, though his first love...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...actress is not an easy one at all. Lots of folks think we have no work to do, but I have been kept on the run so much that I haven't even had time to see any of Boston. It's much quieter than New York, though, and I like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simone Simon Has No Time for Love; Star Sees Little of City, Only Theatre | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...subtle and restrained style of composers like Palestrina, Lassus, and Byrd captures this spirit of churchliness and reserved devoutness. But the less inhibited treatment of sacred texts which the tremendous resources and freedom of the concert hall fosters, though certainly less churchly, is not of necessity less pious...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...enthusiasm. Because it is emotional rather than rational, it profits from the intensified acting and such melodramatic slivers as a mother's scream. Although no one of the parts can be considered a lead, all are well handled, particularly the women's. The technique of "flash" scenes is effective though needing smoother coordination. Taking a script that is alive, at times unable to stay within its own bounds, the Student Union has injected "Bury The Dead" with a spirit of honest reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

Such an attitude comes like a breath of much- needed fresh air in an academic world grown somewhat musty with too much concern for the mechanical means of education and too little attention to the long-run ends. Though one can perhaps charge Mr. Frost and those of his kind with trying to sensationalize education, so passive has the intellectual role of college students become that it takes considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

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