Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uptown New York (World Wide) is in a quieter vein than Central Park (see above), a three-cornered Bronx romance about a blonde Patricia (Shirley Grey) who marries a chewing gum salesman (Jack Oakie) after she has had a love affair with a successful surgeon (Leon Waycoff). The time comes when, to save Patricia's life after an accident, it is necessary for the surgeon to operate on her. Eddie, her husband, decides that after all Patricia likes the surgeon best; to facilitate her leaving him, he absents himself from home. When Patricia guesses what he has done...
...Everything's Rosy" includes some of O. Soglow's cleverest ideas. The picture of Lady Godiva, for instance, is in his best salacious vein. And all New Yorker readers should howl with laughter over the new antics of that inimitable king of O. Soglow. But once in a while, one has the feeling that the humor is strained. O. Soglow has hoped that his name would excuse bad ideas, or perhaps that his drawing would put them over, which it almost does...
...infers that if everyone, including the innocent children, must drink several gallons a week, since the mathematical odds favor the capacity of the saloon habitue as compared to the post-war drinker, more than ninety per cent of the people would be drunk every week. Continuing in this vein, if only about ten per cent were left to manufacture the beer, it is doubtful if they could supply the consumers. The belligerent beer drinkers might revolt; they might even try manufacturing their own beer...
...enlarged membership of the club this year has enabled them to make several changes in the programs which will give them a more varied character. The Gold Coast Orchestra will become less of the "dance band" on the stage and will play several arrangements in a symphonic vein. Their selections will include two medleys, one of Victory Herbert and the other of Jerome Kern from the "Show Boat." Their other numbers will include "The Black and Tan Fantasy," "Mood Indigo," and "Sweet Sue." Under the leadership of J. L. Hutter '33 the club has become a more integrated unit...
...Harvard Instrumental Clubs will present their first concert of this season on next Friday evening at Roxbury Latin School. The program will be in a light vein, comprising semi-classics, marches, spirituals, and popular jazz pieces...