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Robert Donat, in a dual role, plays both Murdoch Glourie, an eighteenth-century Scottish gigolo, and his twentieth-century descendant Donald, whose passions are somewhat more restrained. Although neither part demands exceptional acting, Donat manages to lighten his burr to achieve the transition from Murdoch to Donald. Jean Parker, However, looking like an English Claudette Colbert, is only a routine love-sick heroine. Although her attempted love affair with the ghost is a change from the ordinary, she has no opportunity to show any talent...
...England Conference on U.N. Revision, sponsored jointly by the National Students' Association, United World Federalists, and Students for Democratic Action, opened at Burr Hall last night with an address by William Agar, of the U.N. Department of Public information...
Legge spoke before a hundred students in Burr Hall under the sponsorship of the United Nations Council. His talk concerned living conditions in East and West Berlin and the tense political situation in the city. It was illustrated by 150 colored slides taken during the past six years...
Symphony Sid, disk jockey, Nat Hentoff, writer for "Downbeat," and George Wein, owner of Storyville and Mahogany Hall, led a forum of the newly-formed Jazz Society in Burr A last night...
...HUERA members present also delivered a vote of confidence to new union president Mrs. Helen Maynard. Formerly vice-president, she ascended to the presidency following Burr Hall janitor Elwyn Wyman's sudden resignation two weeks...