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...With the background provided by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the recorded voice of Enrico Caruso, Masquerade in Vienna" proves to be a pleasant enough bromide for thesis-writer headaches. Its advertised "delicate dallying" is mostly delicate, but an ingenious plot and capable acting compensate is any disappointment that might be felt of that account...
...York, the singing teacher told her frankly that if she liked to sing just for her own amusement, he would take her money. When she met Andy (Kent Taylor), a fresh pressagent, he was so rude she cried. To make amends he tried to exploit her farm background by having her drive a flock of geese across Broadway at the afternoon rush hour. For the first time in cinema history, newspapers treated this publicity stunt as wary metropolitan editors actually do treat such affairs- labeling it publicity and publishing it for its amusement value. Thereafter the story, scanning Wanda...
...bumped his head, was sent to a hospital. After some weeks in an epileptic ward he was kindly discharged with a temporary pension. Says he: "I was not in the least scarred by the war. It was little more to me at the time than a dully oppressive background. . . ." But it was a great relief to him to get back to the theatre and real life...
Since China has been heaving with revolution for the past 20 years, the great majority of these stories have social upheaval for their background. Most of the authors are Leftwing; many have been shot or imprisoned. Their names, well-known in China, will be mostly just queer names to U. S. readers: Lu Hsün, Jou Shih, Ting Ling, T'ien Chün, Shih Ming...
...course in marriage is needed in every college," he continued. Harvard, he believes, is no exception to this rule. Although undergraduates here have a background superior to that of many college students in the mass, this would only mean, in his opinion, that they are introduced rather sooner than some students to the complex expectations of marriage that result from advancement and culture...