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...Life of Man", Andreyeff writes grippingly and unforgetably of the life of any man, revealing its moments of despair, its failures, its triumphs, and the final disillusionment. The play is set in the new manner of the theatre, and special music aids in establishing background...
John Harvard as a figure is well-known to the twentieth century. His birthday is recorded annually in editorials. He sits in statue form before Memorial Hall and his supposed likeness makes frequent appearances through the cartoons on newspaper sport pages. But of John Harvard the man, of his background and setting undergraduates of today know little. His name is coupled with Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and there information ends...
...artists have almost always done a part of their student work in Europe, and that at present there are many Americans in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne. With this realization--if he is an American of understanding and a sense of humor--he sees that the background of art is largely "away from us", and that the student is benefited by an acquaintance with the atmosphere of the "old world". Then comes the recognition of the true value and meaning of the new "home of American artists" within the carved paneling and ancient gilding of the Hotel...
...VIEW?E. M. Forster?Knopf ($2.50). Mr. Forster is irritated beyond measure by conventional humanity. But he keeps his temper and laughs good-humoredly from his window at the British Babbitts in Italy. The view from the room was over the Arno, and Florence?of the tourists?is the background for a good part of the book...
...novel of love and action set with the Greek Islands as a picturesque background...