Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 celebrated his eighty-third birthday last night at a dinner and play given by the Master and members of Lowell House...
...addition to Brinton the Senior Fellows are President Conant; Dean Ferguson; President Lowell; Alfred N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy , emeritus; John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus; Lawrence J. Henderson, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Samuel E. Moriston, professor of History: and Arthur D. Nock. Fronthingham Professor of the History of Religion...
Thanksgiving week saw three comedies open on Broadway, all of them bad. Aries Is Rising (by Caroline North & Earl Blackwell) featured a lady astrologer, suggested that the producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...
Queried by TIME for his opinion of Whiteside, ex-Dramatic Critic Woollcott answered: "I only review plays for money." In Too Many Girls (produced by George Abbott) Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who always bob up with something as little like their last musicomedy as possible, have jumped all the way from Shakespeare and old Syracuse to college and New Mexico. Their scene is a rundown campus called Pottawatomie ("One of those colleges that play football on Fridays") and their plot a combination of Boy Meets Girl and Team Beats Rival...
Good as it is, the music is not Rodgers at quite his best or most individual. But where Rodgers has dropped the reins, Producer Abbott has seized them and gone to town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need...