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Though his present duties lack the glamour of his early ventures, Durant has found the last 12 years something less than serene. Fairly or not, he has received a bad press, now over the curtailment of interhouse privileges, and again in connection with perpetually rising food and rent rates. Durant has been faced with defending this to a student bodyfully mindful of the University's tremendous endowment. As yet the students are not convinced. And then there is the independent union of Harvard employees, moderate and cooperative, but full of potentialities...
Second Wave. War Correspondent Bigart was almost a prptotype of the second wave of newsmen to cover World War II. The first wave, of big-name glamour boys, mostly wound up as radio experts- or dashed into a war zone to get enough material for a quick book and lecture tour. The second wave were real war babies...
...Memphis Bound" is the best musical this reviewer has seen in 1945. Without the bathos of "Carousel" or the glamour of "Seven Lively Arts," the play smashes its way into the hearts of its audience with unassuming gaiety and exceptional talent...
...fury, the languor, and the sly wit of the original Twain. If the story fails to hold one's interest all the way through, it is not because of the acting but rather because of the slowness of the last half hour's plot. Alexis Smith, stripped of all glamour and dressed in the old-fashioned clothes in which a flatchested, anemic young girl and a 19th century Hedy Lamarr would look identical, turns in a sentimental performance as Mrs. Twain, whose job it is to control her impetuous husband and give him the incentive to continue writing his "funny...
Miss Swanson's performance will be a return engagement to the little theatre, as she made her legitimate stage debut at Brattle Hall but two seasons ago. Known to all movie fans from 17 to 70, it was she who introduced glamour to motion pictures. Starting her career in Hollywood with Mack Sennet and Keystone, her first pictures were the bathing-beauty and cop-chasing comedies of the silent picture era. Soon she was working under Cecil B. DeMille and is said to have caused men to swoon and women to turn chartreuse with envy...