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...watch as he dances the dual roles of Bill Calhoun and Lucentio. Hank Henry and Sparky Kaye put just the right touch of burlesque into the production with their "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." The show-stopper, however, it s a modern jazz song-and-dance number, "It's Too Darn...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: The Playgoer | 9/28/1951 | See Source »

Maids are a luxury that the College still offers in spite of rising costs. The Cambridge women who come in to clean have been known even to darn the socks of a student, but others merely straighten out the beds each morning. Student porters will fill in for the maids in a few places this year.This is one of the College's seven upperclassmen Houses (LOWELL) which are located on or near the Charles River. After spending their first year together in the Yard, freshmen will apply in April for one of the seven. Each House provides living quarters...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: 12 Yard Dorms House '55 | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

...determined scientist with a theory. It was his belief that a resolute young man, by rafting across the Pacific, could earn enough money to retire for life. "Kon-Tiki"--which has grossed him an estimated four million--has proven Heyerdahl's point, and it's also a darn good movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/19/1951 | See Source »

Springtime for Henry (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Harald Bromley & George Brandt in association with Richard Doscher) has been darn near a lifetime for Edward Everett Horton. Having played it just about everywhere else in the U.S. for the past 18 years, he began playing it last week on Broadway. To Broadway, which found five years long enough for Oklahoma!, those 18 years seemed either a miracle or a misprint. Not that the idea of the play-which inverts a copybook moral-isn't amusing enough. Henry Dewlip begins as a rakish, well-adjusted bachelor, is misled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

What, again? . . . Mr. Robinson's article may have had a market in Oxford's undergraduate Isis, but I'm getting darn tired of seeing that type of hogwash being given undeserved circulation in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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