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...graduation that the more intensive work in the field of concentration is not done at the cost of narrowing the college course. It is quite possible that, by the enthusiasm of a tutor for his own field, a student may be led into specialization before he has gained the background that work in fields entirely unrelated should give. This specialization may take two forms: emphasis upon the the courses and tutorial work in one field to the neglect of courses outside this field taken either for distribution or as free electives, or too great concentration in one field...
Their first production, Loud Speaker, was written by John Howard Lawson, author of Processional (TIME, Jan. 26, 1925). As expected, it is staged against a "constructivist" background and presents the subjective state of the principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by affording the playwright several planes of action on one stage, it allows greater flexibility than is permitted by the rigid three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner...
...private collections where, through the courtesy of directors and owners he was able to move the object to be photographed to the best possible location for his purpose, or to otherwise arrange the lighting, an operation which could only be trusted to some one with his professional background. The results of Professor Kennedy's work as seen at the Fogg Museum reveal possibilities hither to for the most part unrealized...
...particular book or magazine will be attacked, but the entire field will be parodied. The Fairy Tales of the Grimm brothers and those of Hans Christian Anderson form the background, but besides these the Red, Blue, Green and Yellow Fairy books, Mother Goose, Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, and the children's poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Whitcomb Riley Eugene Field and W. C. Gilbert will be burlesqued...
...Orleans, the one city in the U. S. with a sensuous background, puts on the show year after year. As the last whoops of one carnival die out in the warm spring breezes off the Gulf, diligent managers are promoting the program for the ensuing year. They call in artists, discuss costumes and motifs; they plan and plot, calculate. The show must go on! It is a mint. Then there is the tradition which must not be overlooked...