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Hardly on a par with other Italian imports, Anna is entertaining mainly as a vehicle for Silvana Mangano's sensuous talents. Faced with a wellworn plot and a superinposed sound track, Mangano overcomes, both, and alternatey slinks and strides her way to a fine performance...
Among the unforgivable sins in the rigid social code of the University, overdevelopment of the acquisitive abilities is not the least. The touching elbows of scholars must be wellworn. Not so with the institutions of the University. Their acquisitiveness is free of aggressiveness, and when they grow rich it is in a way unlike any other prosperity that is. The University feels the obligations of new wealth. It is humbled, as at the sight of something greater than itself, and proud, as at an enduring confidence...
...mile according to the severity of the storms and the local conditions; and once or twice in a generation there comes a storm that lays low whole stretches of forest and obliterates miles of trail. Aside from such storms a trail long maintained in good condition and wellworn win be lost in any kind f growth if left to itself for ten years. So every three to five years each trail must be re-standardized...
...company that this week presented "A Celebrated Case," will, the coming week, appear in "The Two Orphans," Miss Georgia Cavyan and Miss Maud Granger in the title roles. This is one of the best companies that has ever been at the Globe, and should be seen, even in this wellworn play...