Word: background
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged handsome scenes? marching grenadiers, palaces hung with cascades of stairs, a royal wedding in which flowers, lace and plumes seem blown into the set from pealing organ stops and braying horns. Neither this background nor the heavy-footed dialog is well adapted to the natural technique, essentially informal and Parisian, of M. Chevalier. Lubitsch too, who has in the past shown propensities for wit, seems at a disadvantage with his material. Best shot: how the Queen (Jeanette MacDonald) interprets a salute of 400 cannon...
...executive ability, industry, efficiency, reliability, and personality. Minor sports numerals and letters will be awarded to University and Freshman managers. These numerals will all be of the same type, in accordance with the recommendation of the Minor Sports Council last month. At that time red numerals on a black background, to be worn on a white sweater with no letters to signify what division of minor sports the wearer has represented, were recommended. The minor sports "H" is the same as that adopted by the Student Council last year...
...Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There are no pretty girls, no idealization, no gold leaf...
...presentation of the miracle play is a custom which the Dramatic Club has carried on from year to year, one which affords students an opportunity to see a form of drama rarely produced nowadays. The cathedral background of the Germanic Museum, with its reproduction of the great arch of the cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany, forms an ideal setting for the performance...
...historical background of the rising University indoor athletic plant is interesting to say the least. It was back in 1914 that the Harvard undergraduates first brought to light the necessity of a gymnasium more modern than Hemenway. At that time they launched a drive for funds for a new building. Some $8,000 were collected, but the University authorities soon put a stop to such activities with the declaration that Harvard had a greater need for academic building development. The question was virtually dropped for more than a decade, but then Harvard's crying need once again broke into...