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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry IV, Part I (by William Shakespeare; produced by Maurice Evans). Though Henry IV contains the greatest comic figure in English literature, it has been produced on Broadway only once (for a week in 1926) in 43 years. One reason: the whole play cannot be performed in a single evening; another: Falstaff is not only the greatest but the fattest of comic figures, and a severe physical strain on any actor who, all padded and stuffed, impersonates him. For that weighty reason, Maurice Evans announced he would play Falstaff for only four weeks...
Books of early English printers, photographic displays including motion picture stills and pre-photography discoveries, and first editions and manuscripts of Robert Burns are also being shown...
Additional Harvard men who will speak include Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; and Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and president of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers...
Fortnight ago the Bank of England asked London commercial banks to put the brakes on the flow of English gold to the U. S. by not facilitating speculations in U. S. securities. Last week this caused substantial British liquidation of U. S. stocks...
Others speakers at the Boston meeting will be Thomas H. Eliot '28, wage and hours act administrator for New England; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Ralph B. Perry, professor of Philosophy; E. J. Simmons, assistant professor of English, who will represent the Cambridge Union of University Teachers; and C. Fayette Taylor, of Technology...