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...which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel, the remarkable Losch, whose dancing has made her something of a fetish in Europe, performs an extraordinary "Arabesque" in which her hands and torso trace sinuous designs while her feet remain motionless. Cole Porter fulfills the duty of popular composers to provide at least one haunting ballad per show. Its name: "What is This Thing Called Love...
...annual appearance of the President's Report fulfills, in practice, two important functions. It gives Harvard men a chance to trace the progress of the University during the year just past, and it raises questions, often controversial in nature, as to the further development of University policies. This year's report will satisfy those who like to look back upon work well accomplished and will provoke to further activity that large group of men who are always thinking and striving towards the high goal which Harvard has set herself in the field of American education. Several proposals in the report...
Confidential Engineer. The Hoover of Mexico was born at Morelia, capital of the State of Michoacan in 1877 of a rich, aristocratic family who trace their descent back to 1545. He graduated with an engineer's degree from the University of Mexico, entered the Army, was gazetted Captain in 1911, Brigadier General in 1920. "The late President Carranza," writes one Mexican historian, "frequently employed him [Ortiz Rubio] on engineering work of a confidential nature and also for strategic enterprises...
...chief reason that "Sweetie" is superior to the average of its school is that it dares for a moment or so to indulge in just a trace of satire. There is for example the episode when Mr. Jack Oakie, as a hoofer turned freshman, discovers that the Alma Mater song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb...
These scenes were filmed as a part of the "History of Massachusetts," upon which the Foundation has been working for some time. The movie will trace the history of the Bay State from its establishment down to the present...