Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customarily is, as empirical as a banker. Unlike John Barrymore, who wanted to be an artist, she was early convinced that the theatre would be her life. Living in Paris from her third to fourteenth years, she attended the College Sévigné, developed a linguistic talent which now allows her. to talk French, German, Danish and Russian. In England she studied dramatics at Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy, made her début in London (1915) as a cockney girl in The Laughter of Fools. She reached the U. S. by making friends with Actress Elsie Jam's, whom...
Present day America offers an almost unexampled field for architectural development. A true American type of commercial structure has been evolved since the war, and in almost every field of architecture the expansion of the city and of the nation offers new and broader opportunities for American talent. Harvard, combining as it does the new School of City Planning and the Architectural School is particularly well fitted to contribute to the architectural and aesthetic development of the country...
...George Eastman Chair should prove, however, more important than any one of its incumbents. It is in line with the present movement among universities here and oversees to exchange the services of their best talent. Harvard is enjoying now not only the eminent ability of the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, but also that of visiting lecturers from France and Germany...
...untie many heretofore tightly tangled Elizabethan knots. Embracing the political implications of the virgin's reign - the development of England's insularity, the alienation of the continent-she fails however to suggest as strongly as did Strachey the lusty temper of the times, the era gorgeous with talent, studded with awesome genius. But she establishes herself again as an acute, comprehensive, sometimes vivid biographer, well-equipped to develop her summary of Elizabeth-"Her reign was a marriage, and the nation was her child...
Such a picture is "The Dance of Life", now playing at the Central Square Theatre. Although no special scene is inserted the entire theme has been constructed in order to allow Nancy Carroll and Hal Skelly to display their musical and terpsichorian talent...