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Play and players combined to present a pleasant performance of John Van Druton's "Young Woodley," at the Copley Theatre last night. Seven or eight years ago Glenn Hunter, who stars in the local production, created the role of the shy, appealing youngster who fails in love with his housemaster's wife; the play has lasted well...
...Copley production has its faults. Interest on the part of the audience lags through most of Act 1; the younger the people of the play, the greater is the tendency on the part of the actors toward an amateurish flavor. Only during the second act do we believe that Laura Simmons is the person the author intended her to be, and throughout the play there is a feeling that only Shepherd Strudwick, as Ainger, of the supporting cast, is genuine...
...portraits, which are being done by Miss McKenna of the "Copley Prints" of Boston, are taken from enlarged photographs, only the finishing touches being put on from the subjects themselves. Those already completed include Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law; M. C. Campbell, professor of Law; Samuel Williston '82, Dano Professor of Law; Calvert Magruder, professor of Law; E. M. Morgan '02. Bussey Professor of Law; E. M. Dodd '10, professor of Law; E. R. James, professor of Law; W. A. Seavey '01, professor of Law; A. W. Scott, Story Professor of Law; G. N. Garner '11, professor...
Four unfamiliar pictures neatly quarter President Washington's life 1) a miniature attributed to John Singleton Copley executed when Washington was 25; 2) a Peale showing Washington, the Virginia colonel; 3) Trumbull's portrait of Washington, the General, painted in 1792, in which the subject is standing on a high cliff while a pickaninny in a turban holds his horse; 4) Washington, the Old Gentleman, with a somewhat rufous nose and in full Masonic regalia, done by William Williams for Alexandria (Va) Lodge No. 39. Their respective denominations...
Compared with these paragons of political virtue, we ignorant Americans show up pretty sorrowfully. Our idea of a social upheaval is being bounced from a Copley-Plaza "deb" dance. Former generations say that there is no "up-and-go" to us; we may possibly think well, but we never do or say anything about...