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...musical affairs. It is further noteworthy for the announcement that Mr. Arthur Whiting will give a series of concerts of chamber music this winter. Those who have followed in past years the Whiting concerts realize their importance. The men who will be introduced to them this winter will soon understand both the sorrow which met the announcement a year ago that 1928-1929 was to be their final season, and the sincere satisfaction and gratitude with which Mr. Whiting is rewelcomed this year--as Harvard hopes, not for the last time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPRECIATED | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

Despite unwieldy complications, the plot is not a bad one for a melodrama. One has to understand (and stand for) certain conventions in the best of bloody melodramas. The locale is a little town in England, in the dusty shadows of the cathedral close. It is a good stage for a mystery, though one might accuse Mr. Reeve of overdoing the underground passage and hidden chapels a bit for his effect. The story moves swiftly enough, although it might have been better-handled...

Author: By G. P., | Title: THE GINGER CAT. BY Christopher Reeve. William Morrow & Co. New York, 1929, $2.00, | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...been suggested that young people do not understand all of the 'Strange Interlude'. Well, what they don't understand won't hurt them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Krutch Adds His Voice to the Opponents of Censorship and Rushes to Defense-of O'Neill, the Ibsen of America Today | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...TIME, Oct. 7, in mentioning the former Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignore Seipel, you had to use the words "crafty priest." As I know the gentleman personally, I cannot for the life of me understand on what you based your right to this insinuation. Perhaps it is due to the loose and superficial manner of many journalists when they approach anything pertaining to the old Church, utterly disregarding the ordinary obligations of man to man; it should be discarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

When you take into consideration the fact that the team made this record under a coach who was serving his first year, then you begin to understand what the latent possibilities of the Peninsula state boys really are. The particular coach in question is a certain Mr. Charles Bachman of Notre Dame fame. Like so many others of his tribe he purports to teach Rockne football, but unlike a great many others of his tribe he really seems to do it. The report is that he has equipped his team with an offense of which the great Knute himself might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

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