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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (Repub-lic). A catchpenny musical whirligig cir-cularizing Leo Carrillo, Phil Regan, Ann Dvorak and James Gleason, with bursts of crooning, hoofing, variety specialties, a baseball game (with a glimpse of Baseballer Joe Di Maggio), a rodeo. Brass rings: Tamara Geva (Chauve-Souris, Flying Colors, On Your Toes) as an opera singer; Cab Galloway's "Yascha"; Ted Lewis' "Baby" still smiling at him; Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, reminding folks that it is Round Up Time in Reno...
...epical poem The New World. Homerically splendid in conception but plain dull, for the most part, in execution, the book presents a detailed catalog of slips whereby the New World has fallen from its original promise of a New Age to the "age of brass" following Appomattox; to the ''age of gas" initiated by "logolyrist" Woodrow Wilson; finally to the "age of soap-grease" sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt. Most tragic slip, in Poet Masters' reckoning, was the Civil...
...clock last Saturday morning, the vicinity of Sever Hall was the site of much activity. Harvard students, finishing up the last classes of the day in anticipation of a big afternoon at the stadium, dribbled out of Sever's wide portal in slovenly contrast to the ramrod posture and brass-buttoned uniforms of members of the Military Academy, who, collected in small dignified groups, were chatting away with one another in a way becoming cadets...
Word that on Saturday the band will make bigger and better noise than ever and will out gyrate even its own spectacular gyrations comes as no surprise to those on the "inside" to the group's quite efficiency. More than blows of air through brass lie behind a good band, and in the handling of the money situation the organization has shown the same determination with which it practices five hours for each five minutes of display. The formation of the Harvard Band Trust, just announced, is evidence of high interest and loyalty to the band by its members, boding...
Whatever it is, it is built of wood, with a central brass frame, and lots of cells, plates, switches, etc. The patient is supposed to sit in a small wooden seat and hanging over him is an imposing helmet replete with four coil-enclosed plates...