Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realizing that no tightly-knit piece could be made of Mr. Priestly's rambling and episodic story, the producers have adopted a cinematic technique by which they wander all over England in sixteen scenes. These are well thought out and deftly managed in performance...
Stanford is blessed with a campus nearly a thousand acres in extent--originally the farm of Senator Stanford-- which allows ample room for the university's 3500 odd students to wander happily about. Hay fields must be crossed when one goes from one living hall to another, to The Quad, or to the library...
Their fiftieth football game is the particular occasion for this gathering of Eli and Harvard men. This year, certainly, the visitors from New Haven will wonder at the physical changes which have taken place about Cambridge. And next autumn, Harvard men must undoubtedly receive a similar surprise as they wander through Yale's Harkness House Plan...
...notice, as I wander on succeeding Saturdays from game to game and from university to university, that the duty of shricking to rhythm of rhymed nonsense, a hangover from mauve days when the boys were turtle neck sweaters and hats with brims turned up and pinned back with brooches in the shape of "Harvard", "Yale," and "Princeton" pennants, is being relegated more and more to freshmen and alumni. The undergraduate of any intelligence is growing resentful of having his afternoon's enjoyment for which he paid disrupted by the necessity of having to howl such items as "Rickety...
...brunt of the entertainment is borne by Miss Gahagan, of whom it may be said that not once does she allow the attention of the audience to wander. "Tonight Or Never" is a play which depends in a large measure on the personality of the prima donna for its effect. The portrayal of Miss Gahagan is a composite of spasms of temperament, periods of remorseful affection, and evidences of a pampered, irresponsible existence. In brief, a reflection of the popular conception of operatic stars. One of the most pleasing phases of the entertainment is the manner in which the star...