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...Devil's Holiday (Paramount). Director Edmund Goulding usually writes his own stories and has the reputation of being able to make the stars who work for him perform brilliantly even when they have given no previous indication of brilliance. After bossing Gloria Swanson in her most recent and best picture The Trespasser, he has done an even more painstaking job for Nancy Carroll, whose previous film experience has embraced few parts more taxing than the leads in Honey and Sweetie. In The Demi's Holiday she plays a little adventuress who, in cahoots with a salesman of farm equipment, sets...
...unfortunate enough to have to work for a living. I don't think it too much to ask for a little respect in return for the many little acts of kindness which we perform in our work...
...Gluckliche Hand. Nerves were so atingle from the sheer physical force of Le Sacre that when the brief perform-ance was over many had almost forgotten Die Glückliche Hand, the curtain raiser. Yet like the Sacre the Schönberg piece can be counted as experimental music. It is pantomime opera, takes only a little more than 15 minutes to perform. Its subject is a simple one: a man in the pursuit of happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played...
...Class Committee has no duties to perform this year but only busies itself with class reunions, the first of which will come three years from...
...further announced that the Club will sing in a Fine Arts Museum concert on May 15. Previous to that it will perform at Dana Hall School, Wellesley...