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Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
Nine of the 13 signed a leter reading. "We, the undersigned, who support Franklin D. Roosevelt for President, will vote for John W. Haigis for Governor." Those signing were John B. Crane, Instructor in Economics, Clarence H. Haring '07, Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin American History: Arthur N. Holcombe '08, professor of Government; Earl G. Latham '30, Instructor in Government; Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History; Raiph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History; Earl N. Stilson '31, Instructor in Government; and Payson S. Wild, Jr., assistant professor of Government...
Back in the Attic on his desk the Vagabond has memorandum for a really big day tomorrow. Tomorrow the Vagabond puts on his seven-league boots and winged helmet and does a superhuman job of Vagabonding. At nine he listens to Crane Brinton, Harvard 5, on "Rousseau." At ten to Professor Nolte, Sever 7, on "The Age of Enlightenment". At eleven to Professor Arthur J. Nock, Harvard 2, in History of Religions 1, on "Zoroaster". A well balanced metaphysical diet...
...first snow yesterday just past noon and the flakes melting before they touched the sidewalks. The Vagabond busy as the squirrels in the Yard, leafing through his Chaucer, reading J. Q. Adams: "Chief Pre-Shakespearian Dramas," (Shakespearian always looks wrong after a year of Kitty's Shakespere), listening to Crane Brinton in History 34a, taking a brisk walk along the Charles, breathing October...
...action of the drama is set in a boys' military academy; the cast is centered about Richard Cromwell, of motion picture fame, and is supported by Edwin Philips, John Call, Jean Rouverol, Charles Dingle, Edward Andrews, Ethel Jackson, Gordon Nelson, and Vernon Crane...