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...Elliott Perkins '23, Instructor and Tutor in History and Literature, will deliver a talk entitled "A Background for British Foreign Policy" today at 2:45 over Station WEEI...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perkins Gives Radio Talk | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

...actors work fluently with the verse; keeping its essential character without ever letting it descend to self conciousness. Benjamin Britten's score, too, provides a coloristic background for the play. To single out any of the performers for praise is practically impossible; the entire cast is magnificent. Leonard Kent as the hero Michael Ransom performs beautifully in a gruelling role; Earl Montgomery as Lord Stagmantle and Jervis McMechan as Ian Shawcross also give outstanding performances. As a last word, one must mention the impressive sets and stagings. Ransom's death-dream is a triumph of direction...

Author: By J. A. B. and W. E. H., S | Title: The Playgoer | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

With Tasker Crosson and his twelve Harlemites as a background, the famed radio comedian kept the show rapidly moving throughout the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1,200 Undergraduates Pack Mem Hall to Watch Yardling Smoker | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...would take more than this false-note ending to spoil a picture which has in its background Dennie Moore as a gossipy, husband-hunting, goo-goo-eyed mail-order clerk. Cinemactress Moore is mistress of fluttery, nasal, dime-store Manhattanese. It is worth sitting twice through the picture to see her exhibition of modesty conquering candor as she twitters: "I'm going to the washroom-pardon my frankness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Minneapolis, and Sornbonne French. Ah, thought Vag, just like those immortal days in Paris--he heard a particularly grating bit of Brooklynese patois and corrected himself-or rather those hours at the American Express office. Altogether, he felt sure that La Marseillaise should have been heard faintly in the background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1940 | See Source »

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