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Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanties, will give the first of a series of lectures on "Humane Traditions America" at 4:15 p.m. in the Allston Lecture Hall. Jones will discuss "The Image of the New World...
American literary studies have failed in their prime purpose--providing a "broad highway" into national culture--the new Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities stated in his inaugural address last night...
...tall, spare, and handsome man with a soldier's bearing, George Abbott began his career as an actor in 1913, after doing post-graduate work at Harvard. "I took Baker's famous playwriting course, English 47," he recalls. "Harvard is a fine university, the finest we have. A very funny thing happened to me there. . . . All year I sat next to the same man; he took laborious notes, I didn't. At the end of the year this fellow turned to me and asked me why I brought the notebook to class at all. I told him that I used...
Unlike many people in his profession, George Abbott does not drink or smoke or talk about himself. He enjoys taking pretty girls out dancing and is especially expert at the cha-cha. Once widowed and once divorced, he has one talented daughter, Judith, and several grandchildren. He drives a new Cadillac and plays good golf for a beginner--he took it up this spring, leaving his tennis cronies looking for a fourth...
...Abbott objects to repertory theater on professional grounds. "I don't believe you can put on a good play that way. I believe in type casting, you see, and you can't type cast in repertory. People like it because they think it's arty." He does not, however, object to Off-Broadway, although "it will never take the place of Broadway because the two standards are so different. I don't include the Phoenix Theater in this." About the future of the theatre, George Abbott feels pleased. "American theater is the best in the world now. We have...