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...assimilated and transmuted, helped to produce the Provincetown Playhouse and its fellows. He proceeds to take up chronologically the work of George Kelly, Sidney Howard and the earlier plays of Maxwell Anderson: the achievement of Eugene O'Neill; comedy, from George S. Kaufman and S. N. Behrman to George Abbott; the so-called "social drama": and the poetic drama of Maxwell Anderson...
Bequeathed to Cinemactress Mae West by the late Oscar Monroe Abbott, a Chicago businessman, were a diamond and pearl stickpin, "my sincere good wishes and a cordial invitation to kum up and see muh some time...
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...