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...elements that make for the success of "David Harum" are all taken from an earlier era when the words "boom" and "depression" were blessedly technical terms. James Cruze, the director, is the man who directed. "The Covered Wagon." The story is almost Mark Twain style. The star is a product of rural America...
...ought not to blind him to the disadvantages consequent upon setting up two bureaucracies with approximately the same objective: the settlement of industrial dislocations. To have the two organizations covering a common territory with slightly varying policy (the Labor Department being the more Leftist of the twain), has lead not only to a dis-economy of effort but very real friction. Turning the mediation work of the N.R.A. back to its proper setting in the existing department, and, while they're at it, pushing the statistical branches over to the Department of Commerce would be two reforms whose value would...
...working under Professor Murray. He has directed college musical productions in England and wrote the book, music and lyrics of a revue given recently at Cambridge. He has had connections in Hollywood, particularly in helping with the scenario for Mr. Chaplin's next picture. Mr. Cooke directed "Ever the Twain," the fall production of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...morning and ending at 4 o'clock when the paper was "put to bed," Editor Howe spent his evenings writing a novel which he called The Story of a Country Town. When publishers refused his book, Editor Howe printed it himself, a page at a time. Mark Twain compared it to the works of Russian realists of whom Ed Howe had never heard. A bleak, bitter biography of himself and his itinerant evangelist father, The Story of a Country Town was a precedent for the school of U. S. fiction whose ablest current practitioner is Sinclair Lewis. More than...
Another performance of "Ever the Twain" will be given this evening at the same time at Brattle Hall, where tickets may be obtained...