Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the efforts of Buster Keaton and the Keystone Cops, who provide some uproarious sequences, "Hollywood Cavalcade" belongs to the great middle class. There is entirely too much of Don Ameche, and too little of Hollywood. No impression is created of the glitter town's lusty early years. In effect it resolves into a Don Ameche Cavaleade, the story of a brilliant but erratic director of the old silent days who bombasts his way through many years of happiness and stark tragedy, and in the end manages to get Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective...
...Varsity basketball team, undaunted by its 50 to 39 defeat at the hands of a powerful Brown five Wednesday night, journeys to Middle town Connecticut tonight to meet Wesleyan, and then returns to encounter Boston University on the home floor tomorrow evening...
SVANVIK, Norwegian-Finnish Frontier Russian troops led by whippet tanks tonight reached the Norwegian frontier when they marched into the nickel-mining town of Salmajaervi, left a blazing mass of ruins by the torches and dynamic blastings of retreating Finnish troops...
...topic of technique analysis the Conference will hear from Stuart Chase and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lynd, authors of wide reputation. In his "Tyranny of Words" Chase makes a thorough analysis of semantics and the meaning of economic jargon, while in their Middle town series the Lynds present a cultural cross-section of a typical American town...
Continuing in a tradition set last year, Dunster House will present an all-student play, "Take It Off", in the dining hall tonight. The play is written and directed by Robert Anderson '39, 1G., who was the author of "Hour Town" presented last Christmas...