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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the film is played in modern dress, its humor is of another and more gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/26/1936 | See Source »

...honest consideration of both sides must uphold Mr. Paley and the stand he has taken in the particular instance; the larger issue, however, transcends both Mr. Paley and the Honorable Henry, and presents itself to the Federal Radio Commission and the legislature which passed the Communications Act of 1934. Broadcasting is too important a thing to be left in the limbo of moot. In the hands of a political mountebank it is a tool that can be insidiously dangerous to honest government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TIME FOR ACTION | 2/8/1936 | See Source »

First on the program will be a decision debate with M.I.T. next Thursday, at which Edward J. Duggan '37, Robert Dunn '37, and James J. Fuld '37 will uphold the negative for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL DEBATING SERIES ANNOUNCED BY COUNCIL | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

...first encounter with a Yale team this year, to be held on Wednesday, November 20, at Waterbury, Connecticut, the Crimson orators will uphold the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That the Roosevelt administration is worthy of the confidence of the American people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL DEBATING SERIES ANNOUNCED BY COUNCIL | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

Last on the series of announced engagements is a return debate with the Yale orators, at which Harvard will uphold the negative of the same question. The debate is scheduled for December 9, at Meriden, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL DEBATING SERIES ANNOUNCED BY COUNCIL | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

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