Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conspicuous around the "campus" are the mysterious sanctums of the secret societies. No living soul, supposedly, knows the membership of these organizations save the members themselves, and no person of the outside world has even seen a member in the act of entering the building. The Book and Snake sanctum, as an example, is a plain white stone cubical structure surrounded by a massive iron fence and having no visible means of entrance. Meetings it is rumored, are held at midnight, but that's only hearsay...
...Ruth Gordon's autobiographical entry into the 1946-47 theatrical sweepstakes deals with her early life in Wollaston, Mass. Staring Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, and young Patricia Kirkland and directed by Garson Kanin, it is almost all topnotch humor of Miss Gordon's school. On opening night the second act curtain and the finale were weak, but by now they have probably been patched. If you go for the Gordon school, you'll have a better chance of seeing it here than later in New York...
Brief Encounter. At the Tremont. A fine motion picture, made by Noel Coward from his own one-act play, "Still Life." It deals with the love tragedy of two middle-class English citizens who meet in a railroad station and develop their "star-cross'd" relationship from there. Coward employs the technique of the dream, combined with fine photography, to achieve remarkable success...
...devoted, half-century old relationship between Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife, Fanny. No attempt is made to satisfy those who would have preferred hearing the principles of this most eminent architect of modern American Constitutional thought, in what would necessarily be a garrulous three-act production...
Blocked in their race for new facilities, the dance committee has tried to reopen Winthrop and Eliot Houses on Saturday night. Since all the Houses are under the jurisdiction of their individual masters, the Dean's Office is impotent and can only act as mediator between the committee and the masters, whose fear of rowdiness coupled with a reluctance to stage more than two big dances each term has made them cool towards the advances of the students...