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...addition to some $100,000,000 worth of monumental benefactions, Edward Stephen Harkness will have two whole issues of Harvard's and Yale's comic magazines to carry his name down to posterity. Upon the announcement last year that he had given $13,000,000 to Harvard for an inner-college House Plan, the Lampoon bitterly denounced Donor Harkness as a destroyer of Old Harvard (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). He was represented as trying to introduce anglophilic educational methods in a place where U. S. collegiate traditions have flourished for nearly 300 years...
...seem curious to occidentals by the antique conventions of Chinese drama. A formalized art, devoid of spontaneity and realism, it uses little scenery other than chairs and tables which may represent almost any architectural feature. The actor expresses himself in turn by speech singing, gymnastics and dancing. Fearsome, comic masks and face-painting, costumes, and a whole intricate play of gesture have complex, traditional significances (stooping, for instance, means passing under a lintel, i. e., entering another house). The singing is accompanied by one musician producing whining, squealing sounds on the Hu-ch'in (bamboo bow-and-string instrument...
Meanwhile 40,000 Chicago employes missed another pay day. Their plight spoiled an otherwise comic-opera effect. A troop of landlords marched into the courts, demanded eviction orders against city jobholders who had defaulted their rent. Orders were issued against four women with dependent children. A janitor was ordered into the streets; he owed $20; the school board owed him $127. Law made these and six other evictions mandatory, but the court in each case granted an extension. United Charities was swamped with calls for help...
Copley -- "The Middle Watch". Comic thriller...
...plane for the first time in his life. In The Hottentot, Edward Everett Horton, able farceur of this piece, was a fake jockey whom the horses frightened more than anything else in the world. The Aviator is a rewrite of The Hottentot and Horton works his familiar comic business into it without many additions but fairly effectively. Patsy Ruth Miller looks pretty, talks agreeably. Best shot: arranging the contest between the novelist and a famed French ace. Best sound: Horton's grunt...