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Only two things have kept the incredible theatricalities of L'Affaire Stavisky from becoming a truly great detective story: lack of a conclusion and lack of a suitable villain. The conclusion was as far off as ever last week, but to the great joy of Sunday supplement writers a possible villain was produced, an officer of the Legion of Honor, a lawyer formerly of great influence...
...around the institution of telephone trouble shooting, to drag in a couple of sweet love affairs, a murder, no end of fist-fights, and much mad dashing about, is fairly usual; but to wind it all up by shooting a gun which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack Oakie and Spencer Tracy say a lot of funny things...
...Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
Plans for the presentation of "Rio Grande" by Charles F. Townsend at Leverett House on Tuesday, March 20, are well under way, and the cast of characters has been chosen. Chaste maidens, bad villains, and languishing beauties will be on the stage in this drama which tells of army life in New Mexico in the early eighties. Nixon deTarnowsky '35, a veteran of a similar play given last year, will take the part of a love-lorn maiden, Retta; the villain will be acted by Milton I. Byer '35, who is known as a very wicked man from former roles...
...peace & quiet in his quarrelsome house, took his evening paper out in the graveyard to read; the sweet Alice who was known as "the Roarer and Greeter," not because she was hospitable but because anything out-of-the-way made her roar and greet (howl and cry); the town villain's tale of Robbie Burns's entry into heaven...