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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan remedies for a distant future of which they have no conception, forgetting how useless it is to reform something that does not exist and may never exist. Overestimating the influence of the university on society they ignore that society, and hopefully strive to establish theories for an unknown future...
...Raymond C. Shannon guessed better. He went to southwestern Argentina, climbed high, searched long. He found a fly. Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between botfly and parasitic fly, a hitherto unknown phenomenon, a botfly with bristles. Entomologist Shannon's find, enthused Entomologist Townsend, is "the most important oestromuscoid discovery of the 20th Century...
...gayest of all gay musical films has come again to the Fine Arts Theatre. This German operetta, with its inexpensive sets, its modest casting, its imperfect sound-recording, carries exuberance and spontaneity unknown to Hollywood. American films may be suaver, better sung, more pretentious, but charm evades them all. For charm is a volatile essence to which the American temperament and the Hollywood system of incubation remains unkind...
...evening at the piano the triumphant waltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his waltz. The operetta is about to fall for want of it. But love finds out the way to the fraulein's heart, and hers joins with his to recall his "Zwei Herzen...
...evening at the piano the triumphant weltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his waltz. The operetta is about to fail for want of it. But love finds out the way to the fraulein's heart, and hers joins with his to recall his "Zwei Herzen...