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Enmity in the servants' hall and the sud den inspiration of a city detective catch a poisoner at work in an aristocratic Gramercy Park family. The mystery has its flaws but the story is believable and well-written...
...movie is slow-moving, maudlin, and embarassingly over-done in spots. As a serious warning to America that a Democracy is not altogether safe from some of its own power-craving citizens, it is rather well-timed and forcefully presented. And lastly, as a humorous love story about a newspaper sob sister and an erstwhile tramp, the picture is well-acted, well-written, and definitely up to previous Capra standards...
...forth the problem as it affects the individual teacher. In that aim he achieves the desired result. It is fortunate that the plot of the book is not of vital importance, for it is not handled as well as are the setting and characters. But one cannot deny that Kempton's picture of Harvard life is thoroughly realistic and well-written. Oliver's students, his wife, his daughter, his mother-in-law, and, above all, Oliver himself, are unquestionably genuine. You can't help feeling a common bond with a fellow who dislikes the Widener steps because they...
FROM its last year's form of a few mimeographed sheets of official information loosely stapled together, the Harvard Naval Reserve Bulletin has developed into an attractively bound, well-written monthly magazine which has a wider undergraduate circulation than the Guardian or the Advocate. The contents are mostly of an esoteric nature, but several of the articles are of general interest...
...plays clarinet-violin-piano works by another friend, Modernist Béla Bartók, Fiddler Szigeti says of jazz: "It has raised the standards of efficiency in playing music. It is much easier to get away with a slovenly performance of Poet and Peasant than with a well-written jazz piece. Jazz brought to popular music what the impressionist brought to painting -more colors and more care in using them. I think jazz has sharpened the receptivity of the listener...