Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. The twin children of Norman Crowne are William and Emily, whereas the children of Charles Frobisher are their cousins, Trevor and Charlotte. All of them are brought up together; but almost immediately, in William and Emily, appears the wild and enticing madness that had made their father a great poet and, as many people thought even after he had been acquitted in his notorious trial, a murderer. Trevor and Charlotte are clever but a little disagreeable. They take after their father, Charles Frobisher, one of the solemn critics whom Norman Crowne despised...
...drifting into all sorts of dangers and just missing them, till it seems an absolute marvel it can last so long. The whole romance of it is that you know it must come to grief.' " The Crownes begin to come to grief when Tilli Van Tuyl persuades Norman to produce his play The Seven Dawns...
...desire to wander into Appleton Chapel and become a tradition. It is to the present and future then that he will turn today. From his abode under the shadow, so to speak, of the founder's statue he will set forth not toward the massive Norman portal of Sever, or the Georgian chastity of Harvard but in a very different direction. For it is quite as it should be, that on ordinary days he should busy himself in plucking, as he remarked earlier in the year, the flowers which might else blush unseen but by a few in the "Announcement...
Fall rowing for the University crews ended yesterday afternoon when F. B. Lee '39 stroked his 150-pound crew over the folkish line of a two mile race six feet ahead of crew W. stroked by James Norman...
...Five O'Clock Girl. A large-sized musical comedy descended upon Manhattan, its cap feathered with Mary Eaton & Oscar Shaw. Norman Bel Geddes scenery and a tune ("Thinking of You") were, many thought, even abler ingredients. The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant...