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...left precise specifications. In 1848 Girard opened its first class of 100 fatherless boys. Within the building, which a hostile press called "The Icy Ghost of Two Million Dollars," a hardboiled staff shaved the orphans' heads, scrubbed their necks, put them through a cheerless routine of study and frequent canings...
...rest of his picturesque competitors, Uncle Carl Laemmle was a brilliant showman. What other qualifications he had to run a major cinema company sometimes seemed mysterious. But for a long time none was necessary. Nepotism, always prevalent in Hollywood, was a fixed tradition at Universal City. On frequent trips to his birth place, Carl Laemmle usually returned with relatives who were promptly placed on Universal's payroll. Many were incompetents. None was discharged. The peak of Universal nepotism came in 1929. Carl Laemmle made his son, Carl Jr., general manager of the company, in honor of Junior...
...outlaws, he ravages the State from end to end, not, like Robin Hood, to protect the common people, but solely for bloody revenge. Result is the goriest picture of the year, well-acted, beautifully photographed, but prevented from being a second Viva Villa by its sententious moralizing, its frequent digression into scenes suited only to light operetta...
This has been a quiet week after the excitement of the Lents. Even the weather, while remaining uniformly unpleasant, has provided no vagaries singular enough to write about. Parties are frequent and often Hilarious, but they can hardly be of international interest. Parties are being made up to go to all parts of Europe during next vacation, which so suddenly seems almost upon us. An epidemic of German measles is sweeping the University and making the best of friends frightened to converse with each other at less than two yards range. It is also wreaking havoc in the various casts...
Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman have a following second only to Martha Graham's. Essentially they have the same credo, the same vigorous pace, the same inner urge to let the body speak for itself. Average theatre audiences can appreciate a Humphrey-Weidman recital, see frequent glimmers of a plot that can be translated into words. Though Martha Graham is intent on typifying the U. S. spirit, she is more consistently abstract. Her face is like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence...