Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's Theatre Arts Committee, composed of such Broadwayites as Robert Benchley, Jed Harris, Lillian Hellman, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, is not friendly to fascism. On three fronts- theatre, cinema, radio-it has been making anti-fascist lunges for all it is worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...
...stated, must be chosen early. The three are Physical Anthropology, for which Biology D and 2 are required; Ethnology and Social Anthropology, including outside courses in Sociology; and Ethnography and Archaeology, with which Geology 1 is allied. Graduate courses in special fields may be taken with permission and are worth looking into. 9, a course by Tozzer on the Archaeology of Central America, is an excellent course because Tozzer is one of the greatest experts on that special field...
Course 10, Experimental Psychology and Introductory Laboratory, is also a worth while course to take early, is well taught and not hard, occupying two hours on two afternoons a week. The laboratory equipment could stand improvement, however. Stevens is a fine research man, but does not have any extra time for students in this course...
...study of cultural and a survey of the main theories of cultural change. Sorokin, one of the foremost sociologists of the country, gives rather one-sided but interesting and sometimes startling views, and since the section men clarify and counter-balance them adequately, the lectures are well worth while. The course is highly recommended for non-concentrators...
...plot is strictly utilitarian. On a Swedish country estate, where he is stranded when his plane crashes, Paderewski unites two estranged lovers by the "miracle" of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. Barbara Greene, Marie Tempest, and Charles Farrell do very well in their distinctly subsidiary parts. The picture is well worth the time for anyone at all interested in music...