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...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Metro Goldwyn-Mayer) is such a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson's ghoulish classic that it might well serve as a final mausoleum for the bones of the ill-fated Harley Street medico and his test-tube twin...
Eliot House had a dinner "in hall" last sight to celebrate the appointment of Harley Granville-Barker as visiting lecturer. The guest, an Englishman, made a short speech after dinner during which he predicted a new Middle Ages in case of a British defeat, and emphasized that democracy is losing no ground in England. Questions were allowed after the talk, and discussion centered around the question of how democratic Britain...
...Harley Granville-Barker, noted English dramatist and Shakespearean critic, is giving currently a series of six lectures on Shakespeare's "Othello," as visiting lecturer in Professor F. O. Matthiessen's course. English 23, on Shakespeare. The lectures will be open to members of the University on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, this week, and next, in Emerson Hall D. at 12 o'clock...
Taxis are fewer than before the war, due both to petrol rationing and raids, but I've always been able to get one. On Oct. 4, I taxied from Blackfriars to Harley Street during a raid. Suddenly the guns went into action overhead. My driver turned to me and said: "Madam, the raiders are overhead, would you care to take cover?" "Not unless you want to," I replied. He withered me with a look and drove on. This is the rule, not the exception...
Coughs and Comforts. In the shelters last week many were coughing, hawking and spitting (not always into handkerchiefs) and significantly all U. S. Embassy staffers were ordered inoculated against typhoid. For the moment, Harley Street physicians said, the health of the London populace showed no sign of having been affected. But everyone knows that Winter 1940-41 is in danger of becoming a breeding season for epidemics...