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Until August the "J" boats will race like this again and again. These trial races are useful for tuning up the rigging, getting the crews spry and smart, are important as indications of form, but meaningless so far as the America's Cup races are concerned. In August at Newport the elimination races will be held and one boat chosen to sail for the U. S. against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. Each yacht costs about $200,000 to build, $150,000 to equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits...
...result of its high pressure method has been that many men receive degrees with nothing more than a superficial acquaintance with a large number of names that are valueless beyond the realms of dinner conversation. Fine Arts 1d is a course that tends to give this coruscating but meaningless polish simply because the instructors are not given sufficient time to provide anything else...
...Director has, moreover, had the good sense to refrain from dragging in an attractively nude but meaningless chorus. And in addition to this he has taken care to emphasize the most atractive points of his stars so that at the end one is given a most tremendous impression of their capabilities. But out of it all one fact remains, the plot was only fair, the characterization was caricature, the music not startling but it was Janet Gaynor and consequently an excellent movie...
...emasculated form of instruction in production with ostentatious amateurism it would be better to confine the scope of the school to merely play writing. It would be a considerable, misfortune if Harvard's second attempt at instruction in the drama should exhaust itself in a diffusion of inadequate and meaningless dabbling in the manner of a ladies' dramatic club...
...many these statements, and similar Cortissoz writings, reveal an esthetic clearheadedness, a critical sanity quite unusual in a day when loose-thinking esthetes customarily employ such meaningless terms as "realities" and "eternal," choose the most nebulous polysyllables to describe their obscure aims. Modernists, of course, vilify Royal Cortissoz as a fogey if not, indeed, a fool. From them he receives the same stigma of petrifaction which they apply to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME...