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While the purpose of the stage is not solely to entertain, it is also not to depress, embarrass, or mystify, as so many of the extremely outre productions of local theater groups have done. The Veterans Theater Workshop last week went through the motions of a play that was not only nebulous and long, but literally a poor piece of writing. The Harvard Dramatic Club, running in a flying wedge behind a superbly ingenious press-agent, managed to fill the house for a production whose only scintillating features were its novelty and its fig-leaf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 12/12/1946 | See Source »

Room permission has been extended to 8:30 o'clock after the game, as contrasted to the normal Saturday deadline of 7. Permission to entertain female guests must be obtained in advance as usual, however, from the proctors in charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls Can Stay Late in Yard Dorms Saturday | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

Edgar Bergen (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The famed ventriloquist and his sounding board entertain Fred Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...Fialkow '48, co-chairman of the committee, will drive the entertainers to the settlement houses. Requests for Thanksgiving and Christmas party entertainers will begin pouring in soon after Hallowe'en, Fialkow said, and he urged that all undergraduates who would like to entertain at settlement houses contact him at Adams House I-21 during evenings or at Phillips Brooks House during afternoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven P.B.H. Men to Perform for Children In Settlement Houses | 10/30/1946 | See Source »

...more spirited group of local jam session devotees are raking valiant efforts to entertain themselves. WHCN puts on several hot record shows a week including a special Battle of Jazz between the two and four beat advocates. Whether or not the program has created any serious dissensions in the student body as a whole, is not as yet known but there is a definite possibility that the Network building may split down the middle over the question. No one should betake himself to that vicinity on Friday nights without at least a steel helmet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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