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Directed in the vivid, light style of Rene Clair and Ernst Lubitsch, the French film is a musical romance which manages to maintain its delightful simplicity and humor, although it does show a definite Hollywood influence by including a chorus scene of the standard Busby Herkeley type. Excellent photography and really amusing sequences more than atone for the nature of the plot, which is too juvenile to justify elucidation...
...Overseers, at its last meeting, completed arrangements to elect annually a group of sixty men which would represent the entire faculty and which could assume some of the administrative duties now being performed by committees. The primary importance of such a group, however, lies in its ability to maintain close contact with the president through frequent meetings and so would increase materially the reach and unity of the central executive power...
...corner, the student not on the Dean's List is compelled to regard its advent with some apathy. He whom the Fates frowned on at the midyears has long since received a neatly printed notice from the Dean's Office reminding him that due to his failure to maintain a B average he must be particularly careful not to cut classes around holiday time. The implied threat is the big stick of probation for the feckless undergraduate who is careless enough to bid defiance to University Hall on this momentous question by slipping down to Wellesley or Smith on pleasure...
Cassedy grinned between strokes. For the first time his little coxswain was getting panicky. He was watching for the boulder, and he hadn't seen it. He knew that his crew couldn't maintain a high beat for any great length of time, and he wasn't taking any chances of a break in the boat...
...private office, preferred to work in the bustle and noise of the partners' room. When the partners next meet in that room they will have a hard time finding a man to take Otto Kahn's place-a man with the personality and power to maintain the firm's great prestige. Felix Warburg, last of the old partners, acts today mostly as an adviser. Jerome Jones Hanauer, Jacob Schiff's trusted "inside man," retired last year. Sir William Wiseman is a Briton who has been a partner only five years. Today much of the work...