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...Lafayette college professors shows. Of 28,815 persons named in "Who's Who", 16,433 were college graduates, and of these Harvard has 1,374, Yale 937 and Princeton 480. However, only 6.6 percent of the total number are Harvard men, while Amherst lists 7.4 percent and Hampden-Sidney 7.45 percent...
...young men are unable or do not choose to attend one of these colleges, theoretically they should at least attend a New England institution, for the seats of learning in this area have produced 32% of all Who's.* But the hypothetical best bet is Hampden-Sydney which, although it ranks only seventy-first (52 graduates) in the number of alumni present in Who's Who, rates No. 1 in proportion of alumni-listed-7.45%. Amherst has 296 of its sons, or 7.40% in Who's Who; Harvard, with 6.60%, comes third...
...bullish note. Some 250 productions were scheduled to open on Broadway, some 70 productions were routed to play the provinces -an increase of 30 over last year. The Theatre Guild announced that it would present its repertory in ten cities* -three more than the 1929 tour. And although Walter Hampden made known that he would not go on the road as in previous years because of poor business conditions, Funnyman Ed Wynn thought prospects were bright enough to buy Simple Simon (last season's Ziegfeld show in which he appeared) to take on tour...
...Brooklyn's most famed Dougherty uses his first two names only, Walter Hampden. Actor Hampden's Brooklyn-born brother Paul, able artist, long since moved to Manhattan...
...musicians. Her uncle is professor of the violin at the Leningrad Conservatory. Schooled in Manhattan, she attended Columbia, at one time studied to become a physician. Her first legitimate part was with Ethel Barrymore in The Lady of the Camelias in 1918. The following year she toured with Walter Hampden as "Juliet," later appearing in the Theatre Guild's Power of Darkness and Peer Gynt. She likes to climb mountains, drive horses, eat spinach "because it reminds her of the country and gardens." Audiences watching her are reminded of Actress Claudette Colbert (TIME, April 28). Because...