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...time proposed for the House Plan, would be merely a continuance of a Harvard tradition with only a slight twinge of anglican influence in its makeup. While the resurrection of the before-and-after-dinner "blessing" might prove rather amusing, the suggestion to perpetrate Harvard's past through the medium of the High Table, a purely British extraction despite its 300 years of acclimation, holds very little appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN AULD ACQUAINTANCE | 2/5/1930 | See Source »

...rightful domains because of some question of certificates. He is the son of a famous war-lord and a gypsy dancer, and maintains the reputation of both to the best of his ability. His main feats are saving the remains of a rapidly degenerating Hapsburg Empire through the medium of his mercenary soldiers, insulting an emperor and jilting an arch-duchess, marrying a gypsy girl (the trait seems to run in the family) with a rather lax set of morals, destroying the Hapsburg Empire again, dispensing with the gypsy accoutrements, reinsulting the emperor, falling in love with the afore-mentioned...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/29/1930 | See Source »

...Securities Corp., newly founded, was the medium of the efforts and Banker Brown became F. S. C. president. F. S. C. announced it would issue $35,000,000 in 7% three-year gold notes. Offered to 15,000 Fox stockholders, 25,000 Fox employes, 15,000 theatre-owners served by the Fox organization, and to the general public, the issue if successfully sold, would enable Mr. Fox to pay off the largest and most pressing of his current obligations. First-to-be-satisfied creditors would probably be Halsey, Stuart & Co. ($12,000,000), then American Telephone & Telegraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rescuer Brown | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...condition of opera in Italy was the reason given recently by Composer Mascagni for endorsing sound films. He even suggested that his own next opera would be composed expressly for the cinema. Said he: "Composers must adapt themselves to the new conditions, as the talkies can be made a medium for educating the masses musically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Italy | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM FOR ART PRODUCING THE MOST COLOSSALLY MORONIC RESULTS STOP MY MOTHER AND FATHER FIGURED MOST SPECTACULARLY IN THIS STORY WHEN. . . ." (Prior to her birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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