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Family scenes, life on the farm, whaling ships, the evils of drink, in fact almost all phases of nineteenth century New England are available for serious and often whimsical scrutiny. A small piece by Winslow Homer entitled "Class Day at Harvard" should provide much amusement for seniors who are about to take part in that annual function a few weeks from now; and the Currier and Ives print called "Kiss Me Quick" is a fine example of a Victorian method of amatory advance--now unfortunately outmoded. On the other hand, there are many paintings in the exhibit which are worth...
...curtain fell yesterday on another Harvard teaching career when Louis Allard, professor of French, gave his last lecture in French 7, "Romanticism and Realism in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century." For years Professor Allard has been one of the lecturers in French 6, popular French literature survey course. Yesterday he delivered in French his last remarks as an active teacher...
...from afar, the film has caught that quality in the story that surpasses time or place. Tragedy, stark as the Yorkshire moors that are its scene, is the theme of "Wuthering Heights"; and not a punch has been pulled in Goldwyn's cinema version of this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full course of Cathy's and Heathcliff's passion. Mr. Olivier is particularly good as the gypsy lover, catching all of that character's mysterious and dangerous attraction. Maturest entertainment to come out of Hollywood...
...hesitated, a little taken aback. The place where he found himself was, to say the least, surrealistic. In front of him was the crude semblance of an early nineteenth century drawing room with men and women strewn about in various histrionic positions. A little man with flowing red hair was wandering about among them, muttering to himself and glaring at the Vag. Yet when he looked behind him, the Vag knew indubitably that he was at the bottom of a swimming pool, sans water, and above him were tier upon tier of weird looking people, perched on diving boards...
...disconsolate Vag was ushered out, someone in the nineteenth century drawing room said, "She had a beautiful neck, like a swan...