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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funeral, or the drowning of a Russian Jew at Coney Island? They are surely not of national interest and to me they smack strongly of the sensationalism of Hearst. They are merely gruesome incidents that disclose the morbid mind of a pig sticker delighting in his superb ability to portray the horrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...courageous folk than the whalers of New England, and it is strange that the movies have not capitalized this theme to a greater extent. Only once, if we remember rightly, have we had a whaling picture, and then "Down to the Sea in Ships" proved rather too educational to portray the real life of a whaler "The Sea Beast", adapted from Herman Melville's famous book, "Moby Dick", is truly an epic. From start to finish it is so accurate that not even the curators of the New Bedford Whaling Museum could find fault with it, and at the same...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/5/1926 | See Source »

Indeed, the only real reason for a definite fear is that such deployment may become traditional or customary, and such deployment is contrary to the best interests of the college, such interests as the Student Council's Committee on Education has attempted to portray. The Business School is being moved over the river that it may best enjoy full and wholesome development un-compromised by any of those inhibitions which confinement within the limits of the college continually demands. So it must ultimately become definitely divorced from the college. Therefore those who do go over the river from the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEMPORARY QUARTERS | 4/16/1926 | See Source »

...preceeding articles I outlined the moral and material conditions, which led to the organization of the National Student Unions and of the C. I. E., as well as the history and development of these organizations. The subject of this article is to portray briefly the means by which we expected to fulfill the aim of the movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFEDERATION TO SPONSOR STUDENT OLYMPIAD AT ROME IN 1927 WRITES DEAK | 3/19/1926 | See Source »

...course it is difficult in a week to learn completely a whimsical, unusual role. Styxian cynics are odd people, not too easy to portray. Nor are vicars on the longest of vicars' vacations. But Mr. Cannon realizes the Barriesque quality in the play with delightful results. William Duke, who wants a "keen" world, who likes his vicarship with lambent sincerity, who knows enough of life to misunderstand death--he is exact and competent, more so than can usually be expected in stock productions with red asbestos curtains and singleton orchestras. Miss Newcombe as the formidable Mrs. Clivedon-Banks; Miss Ediss...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/17/1926 | See Source »

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