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Cedric Hardwieke, from the current hit production "Shadow and Substance" now playing Boston, is scheduled to speak this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Junior Common Room in Winthrop House...
...high point in the current craze among dance bands to make swing versions of popular classics is reached in the adaptation by Larry Clinton of Debussy's "Reverie." So perfect a fusion of so-called classic and modern elements has been made in this piece that as far as the fad is concerned, here is an apologia pro sua vita. The swing version of "Reverie" is superior to the original, because Debussy's composition was not in his best vein. "Reverie" dates from 1890, the year marking the transition from the composer's immature to more mature works. That year...
According to the Dean's office it will be the responsibility of the host to know whether the Yarding has previously been a guest during the current week. Only the first meal in each calendar week will be charged to the Freshman's account at the Union...
Book Digest, published by Joseph J. White, offers for 25? each month three or four condensations (5,000-8,000 words) of current books, about eight shorter condensations or excerpts from other works. Book Digest pays publishers $100 for long condensations, runs no advertisements, claims 50,000 circulation. Publishers liked the idea, for they had noted increased sales of such books as Reader's Digest, pocket-size colossus, digested each month...
...honest, nimble play, Oscar Wilde is made a much more important one by British Actor Robert Morley's performance of the title role. Already known to U.S. cinemagoers for his fine Louis XVI in the current Marie Antoinette, Morley achieved stage fame overnight for his Oscar Wilde. From start to finish he is Wilde: whether softly purring his feline epigrams ("Frank [Harris] is asked to all the best houses-once"; "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing"); or fighting in court, desperate and cornered, for his freedom; or sinking...