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...being sponsored by a group of Boston and Cambridge benefactors who are arranging for the showing of a series of free cinemas for the education and enjoyment of Harvard and Radcliffe students. The productions are managed by a committee consisting of Mrs. E. K. Rand, chairman; Mrs. Irving Babbit, Mrs. J. D. M. Ford, Mr. Marcel Francon, Mrs. J. J. Baffner, and Mr. J. A. Haeseler, director of the University Film Foundation...
...very poor taste, I do not think there is much doubt. The artists I know of (I am the son of one of the species, and live in the atmosphere) don't even take such work seriously; they look at it, I should say as simply Babbit stuff (which, unfortunately at times will get into institutions of higher learning...
...unfortunate, before the undoubted worth of much of the settlement work, that it has been plunged into disrepute by the bunk of the day But this being the situation it can only be increased by appeals that openly make Babbit baiting and cash the attraction of what passes for unselfish philanthropy. The undergraduate who would naturally turn to such work has not suddenly become a gross materialist But he is necessarily a creature of his age, and repelled by the shabby hypocrisy and business charlatanism that have invaded the domains of service, has poused his enthusiasm in broader fields...
...also published The American Credo, a sort of joke book full of the nonsensical notions which U. S. citizens supposedly accept as fact. Some of these notions are merrily apposite; most are mere fictions invented by Author Nathan who sometimes (as above) seems capable of falling into his own babbit-snares. Most of his other numerous opera have dealt with the theatre. Born in Fort Wayne, Ind., he lives in Manhattan...
...suspects that only if one is over-serious. Mr Babbit's later words class him with the framers of humorous analogies. For he observes with glee that Noah in founding the menagerie business was the first man to water the stock; while he was yet more modern in utilizing the dove for sky-sign advertising. And his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, having organized the "Globe Girdling Construction Company", sought the several continents because "such a big proposition could not be handled from the ark alone...