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Ottawa was fish-cold to this idea too, and for a reason. In addition to purely social duties, the King's representatives in the Provinces have one important function. They can refuse to assent to provincial legislation they believe to be unconstitutional and submit it to the Federal authorities for approval or disallowance. When Alberta's late maverick Premier "Bible Bill" Aberhart went off the legal reservation, the Lieutenant Governor held up some of his wild-eyed measures...
...Lasting from 9 to 12 o'clock, the Formal will be held in the House dining hall, and all members of the Adams House resident staff have been invited by the Committee, Chairman C. Austin Fish '46 announced. The "Football Formal" will be the third social function presented by the Gold Coasters this season and will be the last for the summer term...
...popular German refugee biographer (Napoleon, Beethoven), scandalized a large Los Angeles convocation of musicians and intellectuals. Ludwig, invited to pinch-hit for Orson Welles at the meeting (sponsored jointly by U.C.L.A. and the ultra-liberal Musicians Congress), had not been asked for advance copies of his speech on "The Function of Music in a Democracy." Said he: "We find that music and the arts are not necessarily characteristic of Democracy. In fact, the greatest music that has ever been composed was done so under tyrants. . . ." He mentioned Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Liszt, Franck, Tchaikovsky, Schubert - all subjects of the Habsburgs, Napoleon...
...will last from 9 to 12 o'clock and will be held in the House dining hall with a unique spotlight system highlighting the decoration scheme. All members of the resident staff at Adams House have been invited by the Committee. The "Football Formal" will be the third social function presented by the Gold Coasters this season and will be the last for the summer term...
...whose director was an alleged genius, he explained: "It isn't worth all the extra trouble you have to go through to get a worse picture." He does not think very highly of directors in any event, as compared with writers. Once he said that the most important function of a good director is to see that the actors don't go home too early. He is, nonetheless, one of the best-liked men in Hollywood...