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...following review of the current issue of the Lampoon was written for the Crimson by C. C. Abbott '28, former president of the Advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABBOTT FINDS LAMPOON PARODY WELL DIRECTED | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

...Request. Bill Abbott (Elliott Nugent) is a tanktown newsman summering in Manhattan for business reasons. Claudia Wynn (Verree Teasdale), a blandishing literary agent, wants to cut capers with him at Bar Harbor. Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Jarnegan is then a profane and exciting melodrama, though one which retains, despite the severe directorial auspices of George Abbott, many touches of Jim Tully's soapy sentimentality. Richard Bennett does most of the acting; Joan Bennett, his daughter and the sister of famed Constance Bennett, is beautiful and well cast as the 16-year-old unfortunate. The truest thing in Jarnegan is the performance, provided by Wynne Gibson, of a dipsomaniac star arriving at the peak of her intoxication; hearing noises in the night, she surmises that the owls are after her; with puzzled insolence she abuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Sever 21 17b Th. at 10 Harvard 1 21 Mon. Oct. 1 at 4 Widener K 25 hf Tu. Oct. 2, 3.30 Widener K 27 Consult Professor Langer 35 Th. at 9 Widener J 43 Consult Professor Abbott46 hf Fri. at 4 1154 Boylston St. 49 hf Consult Prof. Abbott 52a Th. at 11 Andover 55 Th. at 11 Harvard 2 57a Th. at 2 Sever 7 HISTORY OF SCIENCE 1 Th. at 10 Emerson F PRESCRIBED PHYSICAL TRAINING AND HYGIENE LECTURES FOR FRESHMEN Th. at 2 New Lect. Hall INDIC PHILOLOGY 9 Th. at 9 Emerson G 20c Tues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Meetings of Courses Today Find College Classes Under Way | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

...Abbott Lawrence Lowell, economist, president of Harvard University, a millionaire, was chagrined last week. A Federal grand jury investigation revealed that swindlers had obtained $70,000 from him in farm loan frauds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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