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...Mayer). A burlesque dancer named Janie Barlow (Joan Crawford) meets a jaunty young socialite named Tod Newton (Franchot Tone). He sees to it that she gets a front line position in the chorus of a deluxe revue. The revue's dance director (Clark Gable) observes that she has talent and enthusiasm, makes her the star...
Blackbirds (by Nat N. Dorfman, Mann Holiner and Lew Leslie; songs by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols. Ned Washington, Joseph and Victor Young; produced by Sepia Guild Players Inc.) is the third of Lew Leslie's anthologies of the cabaret talent in Manhattan's Negro Harlem...
...would seem nearer to the truth to assign Veblen's vitriol to clear eyes and a sharp critical talent. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Veblen pierced the syllogized "classical economics" with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is through no fault of his that these things persist in the colleges of the nation, for much of his energy was spent in attempting to force them out. Mr. Bates remarks that he was handicapped, in his later years, by a delusion of prophecy that made him see himself...
...system ought to be wholly abolished for the first group of students and modified for the others, letting the vanity of some of the professors go untickled, but doing the students a great service. For a rigid insistence on a program of courses merely bogs down the man of talent and stays him from vital accomplishment. Certain topics can best be treated in large lectures; attendance at those should be no more compulsory than graduate attendance at classes in Oxford or Cambridge, and there need not be nearly so many of them as at present. Most material now conveyed from...
...person devoid of ability cannot be taught to act. There must be some talent present, and the only way to bring it out, and to perfect it, is to get experience; such, for example, as that offered in school and college dramatics. I know that the first time that I really began to act was one evening, three years after I had taken up the stage. I was playing in a light, romantic comedy. Suddenly I heard the audience laughing, and realized that what I was saying, and the way in which I was saying it was making them laugh...