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Elected Vice-Presidents to serve three years were Percy N. Booth '96, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Dr. William Barclay parsons '10, of new York City. Mr. Booth is a lawyer, a member of the firm of Booth and Conner, and has been the President of the Harvard Club of Kentucky for several years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governor Saltonstall Succeeds Cutler as President of Alumni | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

...Milwaukee, nowadays enjoy radio entertainment that is static-free, interference-free, does not wobble, fade or burst at the seams. The enthusiasts say that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing. Said one marveling first listener: "Why, this thing can broadcast silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Modulation and Television | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...exhibit of portraits and play announcements of Edwin Booth, one of the greatest American actors, is now on exhibit in the Theater Collection on the top floor of Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Displays Booth Mementoes | 3/26/1940 | See Source »

...Booth acted in most of Shakespeare's dramas as well as others like "The Fool's Revenge," "Brutus," by John Howard Payne, and "Ruy Blas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Displays Booth Mementoes | 3/26/1940 | See Source »

...with the wrong man. The trite plot is not helped much by the dialogue. There are frequent scenes in which one seriously suspects that Miss Lamarr will, at any moment, be tied to the railroad tracks, but fortunately there are others (not so frequent) which reminds one of Clare Booth at her nastiest best. Spencer Tracy is definitely out of place. He is aphoristic, as usual, but he is convincingly so in a steaming jungle not in an expensive night club. Miss Lamarr is esentially decorative although her acting shows improvement. Veree Teasdale is the saving grace of the movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Movigoer | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

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