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...Sincerely speaking, I believe my own work superficial. It is true that new composers have much talent, but they are not strong. . . . With the exception of Eric Korngold, composer of Der Tote Stadt, I cannot mention anyone I believe in. I am now working on a libretto by Hugo von Hoff-mansthal, author of The Miracle, which suggests great possibilities...
Even so, however, although American films may satisfy the craving for a time, it will doubtless not be long before native heroes of the silver-screen are developed from home talent. In this event Turkish movie addicts will do well to keep their eyes open, lest they fall victims to the same set of stereotypes which rules the American flock good old standbys like the hero of the range, the poor but-honest scullery maid, and the constantly tuxedoed viper who wrecks the home. If all these characters are transplanted, with local adaptations of course, into the original Osmauli...
This afternoon the Freshman track team will have to display unusual talent to down the Phillips Exeter Academy athletes. A squad of 41, headed by Coach O'Connell and Coach Teschner, will leave on the 1.15 o'clock train for Exeter bent on retrieving their laurels lost at Andover last Saturday. Although the Exeter team appears not to be quite up to the standard set by their rivals, their entries contain many experienced athletes, bound to threaten...
...career, inspired by her success in dramatic school. Her aunts had opposed such a life, solely because she belonged to one of the oldest New York families. She tackles a young actor-manager whom she has adored from afar, recites a lurid defamatory speech to convince him of her talent. It convinces him she's a blackmailer, and he telephones for the police. In the end she finds herself in the manager's arms...
...weather holds good for the next seven days and no serious accidents occur on the railroads of the Atlantic seaboard, the states east of the Appalachians will be deluged with a profession of Harvard talent far superior to and more diverse than anything that visiting Europeans can offer. It is indeed fortunate for the immediate prospects of the Oberammergau players that they are to be in Boston, for at present that city seems to be about the only place which will not have at least one visitation from itinerant Cantabridgians...