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...character when the lines are not nearly sufficient. She used illustrations profusely from "Michael and Mary" to prove her points. Miss Kennedy emphasized the fact that all the latest hits of New York were decidedly the other extreme from the realism so popular a few seasons age. "Green Pastures", "Berkley Square", and the New York cast of "Michael and Mary," are instances of this, she declared. Glamour, "the willing suspension of disbelief", the successful effort to make people laugh understandingly, are the missions of the modern theatre...
...plot has to do with the difficulties of one who suddenly finds himself transplanted from the present into the Eighteenth century. A charming old house in Berkley Square with its glamorous traditions of lovely ladies and powdered wigs forms the background in which the half-forgotten specters of the past are brought once more to life. Peter Standish, Leslie Howard, a man of the present with an Eighteenth century counter-part is enchanted by the historic flavor of the past with its sedan chairs and coaches, but when he finds himself immersed in the actualities that went along with this...
Including members from the company of Earl Carrol's "Sketch Book", "Death Takes a Holiday", and "Berkley Square" the guest list has such names on it as Irene Ahlberg, Violet and Melda Lovely, Dorothy Carroll, Grace Wirth, Laverne Barker, Helen Vincent, and Margolo Gillmore...
...last meeting, it was announced yesterday by University authorities. Professor Tatlock, who has been on a leave of absence for the first half year, resigned from the Faculty of the University in order to take a position as Professor of English at the University of California in Berkley, California, his native state...
...enthusiastic rally was held in Woolsey Hall this evening, many undergraduates marching to it, behind the band from the Berkley oval. The speakers included Coach Stevens, T. A. D. Jones, last year's coach, R. D. Root, and C. S. Osbourn. There was also cheering, singing, and picture slides...