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...should come as no surprise that Chicago--a seemingly indestructible show-biz property--has become a vibrant film. The tale--based on the crimes of a couple of real-life celebrity murderesses in the 1920s--was first fictionalized in a 1926 Broadway play, which became a silent movie in 1927, then a film starring Ginger Rogers in 1942. The current Broadway revival of the musical recently celebrated its 2,500th performance. This new big-screen version of Chicago restores the old routine of hit Broadway musicals becoming Hollywood movies. In recent years Broadway has taken from Hollywood without giving back...
...bells, which were originally crafted for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, were purchased from St. Danilov’s in the 1920s by industrialist Charles Crane when the Russian government threatened to melt them...
...weakness for the locally produced Pecorino cheese and sweet Moscato wine. Though he has some trouble communicating, the retired miner wears his years well: on a recent afternoon, he was lounging in the shade of the village piazza, decked out in black pinstripe trousers, a sweater vest and a 1920s-style flat wool...
...supposed scandal over the expulsion of sexually active “gays” in the 1920s has already received much more coverage than it deserves. The Crimson ought not seek to prolong it merely, as it seems, for the publicity that may accompany their calls for setting things right. Moreover, if The Crimson were to seek an accurate understanding of the College’s actions during those years, it would investigate as well whether the College expelled any students guilty of fornication or adultery. To focus simply on the expulsion of homosexual students only serves its agenda...
Such blatant homophobia and discrimination by Harvard, even in 1920, is deplorable. The existence of such a court and the prosecution of students on the basis of sexual orientation is appalling. The events that transpired in the 1920s are not excusable because the atmosphere at Harvard and in society was less understanding at the time; they should not have happened then, and they should not happen anywhere today...