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...their first term. Positions on the board are now held by the three men from March to march, and 17 from September to June, three of whom are taken on in the previous March to give them added experience. As in the case of the Law Review the sole criterion for membership on the board is scholastic standing...
Playing Shaw is never an unmixed blessing, and playing Shaw in a repertory theatre is an out and out curse to the leading actors. The Mines one must learn for this week one must forget for next, and Monday night gives no criterion of the excellences that Friday may bring forth. It is manifestly unfair for any reviewer who saw the play on its opening night to advise an audience which will visit its closing performance. Any review must be one of impressions of circumstances which no longer exist...
Indeed the only criterion of "Brown at Harvard" that can be rightly applied is whether or not the play is a true interpretation of Harvard. By that it stands or falls, both at Harvard and in the country at large; for Harvard men possess a proved ability to make themselves heard. The Metro-Goldwyn Company is surely undertaking a very delicate task, is playing with fire, in truth. But if the production is a success as a true interpretation of life at Harvard, no one will be readier to extend felicitations than Harvard...
...Lawyer Bryan's insistence that the only real issue of the trial was a religious one, and his insistence that literal interpretation of the Bible was the religion he and his colleagues were championing. It reduced to absurdity the notion of setting up the Bible as an educational criterion, in this fashion...
Donald Gallaher (actor who produced The Gorilla) does pretty well and the always dependable Beryl Mercer helps. The chief interest of the opening evening was in the theatre. It is the Criterion, where you have seen The Covered Wagon, The Ten Commandments, etc., returning in its old age to an early and memorable allegiance to the spoken drama...