Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past week Maintenance Department workers have been getting ready for an asphalt path to run from the back door of Harvard diagonally to the gap between Stoughton and Hollis. Yesterday saw the crushed rock foundation...
...stage for the screen, now comes back from the screen to the stage to tell about a girl who refused to spurn the stage for the screen. If this minor irony doesn't obtrude itself upon your attention, you will find George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's "Stage Door" a rather absorbing bit of sentimental comedy. With Mr. Kaufman monopolizing the Boylston-Tremont region, go see "You Can't Take It With You" first, then "Stage Door", and finally "I'd Rather Be Right"; or, proceed in the reverse order if you don't intend to see all three...
...Stage Door is based on the fairly plausible assumption that the legitimate stage is worth starving for, but that its illegitimate child should be called by the shorter name for such offspring, Miss Bennett as Terry Randall struggles through three acts and six scenes defending that creed. She sees her beau, an ill-mannered thunder-and-lightning radical, get enmeshed in the celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure...
...Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Last week, in Chicago, Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans to see his old friend, Chicago's top Roman Catholic, George Cardinal Mundelein. Dressed in a black cassock, scarlet mantle and scarlet skullcap, the Cardinal met the President at the door of his gloomy mansion across from Lincoln Park. After a chat in the archiepiscopal throne room, he and the Cardinal sat down to a private snack of fried chicken...
...long after his formal education is completed. The existence of a well defined program for independent work will do much to overcome the confusion and mental paralysis that seize men after graduation. Such study will both increase the value of what has gone before and provide another "open door" to the exploitation of new fields. The interaction between sustained study and everyday experience should produce a new and useful synthesis...