Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week Harvard's annual athletics report quoted a letter from Field (London sporting weekly) to show that British university sports, reputed to be less overemphasized than collegiate sports in the U. S., actually require more of the students' time & energy. In addition to regular intercollegiate cricket matches...
Danger Lights (RKO). For this first important release to be made with the new Spoor-Berggren wide film (TIME, Sept. 1). RKO has shrewdly chosen a story about railroading which gives the cameramen a chance to show the versatility of the new film by photographing locomotives from many angles. The...
Tom Sawyer (Paramount). The Tom Sawyer of the printed page remains more real than any figure of flesh & blood concocted in his image, and for this reason there are people who will cavil at Paramount's cinema of him, or go with misgivings into a theatre to see him...
What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares...
"Some of the samisen dealers and manufacturers have always said individual prayers for the spirits of the dead cats and dogs. But there are some," he added severely, "who do not observe this elementary courtesy.