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...amateur stage than any play except Hamlet. The well-known lead is a crank at Oxford who in his tenth year as an undergraduate tries to help a couple of pals out of a hole by impersonating the aunt of one of them. As a chaperone who needs a chaper-one herself, ah himself, Benny spends the evening trying to get into the amorous clutches of his pals' financees and out of the amorous clutches of sundry bewhiskered males. Kay Francis as the real aunt shows up just in time to catch Benny on the rebound. She and the remainder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...typewriter clicked off the pages without revision, embodying scraps from his note book in toto, even including some doggerel verse--verse undoubtedly as fine as was ever written by any Iowa-born American in the French Air Service. But it is not literature, not until the next-to-last chaper. In these forty pages Mr. Hall describes the fate of "The Forgotten One," an Englishman who chose almost absolute solitude on a tiny island as the goal of life. For some years he was happy, but of a sudden his evesight failed; madness followed. Mr. Hall reaches here his highest...

Author: By H. W. Bragdon ., | Title: ON THE STREAM OF TRAVEL. By James Norman Half. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1926. $3.00. | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...Annual Business Meeting of the University Chaper of Phi Beta Kappa in Harvard Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRAM OF EVENTS | 6/16/1919 | See Source »

...first performance of the Delta Upsilon play "Ralph Roister Doister," open only to graduates, will be given in Brattle Hall, tonight, at 8 o'clock. "Ralph Roister Doister," a comedy written by Nicholas Udall about the year 1551, is the fourteenth Elizabethan Revival produced by the Harvard Chaper of the Delta Upsilon. Five public performances will be given as follows: two in Brattle Hall on March 11 and 12, the former date especially for undergraduates; one in Jordan Hall, Boston, on March 14; one in the Opera House. Exeter, on March 15; and one in "The Barn," Wellesley, on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST PERFORMANCE BY D. U | 3/8/1912 | See Source »

...Haven house, corner of Chaper and College streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL INFORMATION | 11/24/1906 | See Source »

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