Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further recipients of awards included. Bernard P. Ottenberg '49, William L. peck '49, John F. Reichard '50, Paul C.Shafer, Jr. '50, Herbert Siegal '50, Irving Singer '48, Valdo H. Viglielmo '48, Herman Y. Carr '48, Roy F. Gootenberg '50, Robert J. Irvin '50, William L. McDonald, Jr. '49, Thomas C. Moser '48, Charies 1. Shade...
...plot concerns the romance of an unbelievably wonderful young girl and a man of the type supposedly indigenous to the acting profession, the middle-aged egocentric. Complications are provided by the actor's mistress and his godson a "boy next door" kind of character. Mr. Herbert, who is "no boy next door" himself, gets a good deal of obvious pleasure in awarding the girl to her elder swain...
Since the third act at least equalled its predecessors this is a very adequate evaluation of the latest F. Hugh Herbert opus. It is an "I guess I like it" bit of pleasantry that would disintegrate under any more piercing inspection...
Technically, despite a weak first act-apparently rewritten in immense haste after opening night--Mr. Herbert's writing gets in the way of almost nobody and in fact keeps the evening moving right along. His drawing-room dialogue doesn't have the wicked sparkle of Noel Coward, but the audience is not embarrassed by an absence of chuckles...
With in the short range of 200 yards, University forum goers will have a three-way choice of speakers tonight. Herbert V. Evatt, Harry T. Levin '33, and Mark Van Doren will appear almost simultaneously in different parts of the vicinity of the Yard before varied audiences...