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Uncle Harry (by Thomas Job; produced by Clifford Hayman in association with Lennie Hatten) is a Grade-B thriller-which, in the present sad state of Broadway, makes it one of the notable events of the spring season. Overlengthy dialogue makes the play move too slowly, overmuch plot makes it run too long. With more work (on the author's part) and less play, Uncle Harry might have come closer to being a first-rate psychological thriller; it contains a sound idea, clever characterizations, some skillful writing, and a neatly ironic tone...
...Psychology Department, Clifford T. Morgan has been promoted to Faculty instructor and tutor...
Keep 'Em Laughing (produced by Clifford C. Fischer in association with the Shuberts). Just when vaudeville had been finally given up for dead, Producer Fischer put on Priorities of 1942 (TIME, March 23) and gave Broadway the only living thing it has seen in months. Last week, with Priorities an established hit, Fischer put out another vaudeville. On paper Keep 'Em Laughing looks like a better show, in performance proves a less enjoyable one. Chief reasons: it lacks high spirits, and almost all its headliners go into tailspins...
...Broadway showing. This might have aided the Group Theatre, one of the few enterprising endeavors in New York, and kept them alive this past season. And, lastly, the producers might give more unknown playwrights a chance. No playwright of adult stature has developed in the American theatre since Clifford Odets arrived...
...winners are Clifford R. Bragdon, of Walpole, Mass., education; James M. S. Careless 2G, of Toronto, Ont., Canada, history; Richard M. Dorson, of Cambridge, Mass.; American civilization; Robert A. Rennie, of Blackstone, Mass., economics; David Spring 3G, of Toronto, Ont., Canada, history; Marcus Singer 4G, of Pittsburgh, Pa., biology; Charles E. Passage, of Cambridge, Mass., German; Donald L. Everhart 3G, of Granville, Ohio, mineralogy; and (for the summer of 1942) Roger M. Colo 3G, of Marblehead, Mass., biology...