Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the situation here in its present uncertain state, many men of distinct dramatic talent are discouraged from coming to this supposedly anti-theatrical college. There is a growing belief that Harvard is neglecting one of the major outlets of human expression, and in a civilization so obviously effected by the theatre as that of the present day, this impression can not continue without ultimately retarding the progress of the University...
...hurled out of advertisers' offices, stimulate romance through backstage interviews, and develope savor faire during flash light shots, but it remains for the editorial office to stay quietly at home and think up explanations and alibis for the things other people do. Which after all, is not a bad talent to develop, particularly if one drives an automobile...
...settings of A.A. Milne's English comedy, despite the fact that they offered an unusually difficult problem for the designer, will thus again be the work of an undergraduate artist. This is in accordance with the Dramatic Club's policy of making use of student talent where ever possible. The three dimensional treatment so much in evidence in modern scenic design will be followed in the fall production, where actual construction of details of the sets will supplant painted mouldings and bookshelves...
...year later when Pavlowa returned to Indianapolis, Ruth was taken to see her, did a toe-dance of her own composition. Pavlowa saw talent and beauty of face and body. She spoke encouragingly, advised Mrs. Page to take Ruth to Chicago to study during the summer with the Pavlowa Ballet. There followed further study in Manhattan under Adolph Bolm while the necessary general education was attended to at a suitable school for girls. Then in 1918, while Dr. Page and a son were with the A. E. F. in France, Ruth met quite by accident Victor D'Andre, husband...
...beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense. But chiefly he reassures us that the Russian has not lost his old talent of being able to laugh at himself. The Embezzlers, neither Communist nor anti-Communist propaganda, is funny, and true to more than Russian life...