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...almost always contains a murderer, a lunatic, a butler or a ghost. This time the lunatic is Stuart Erwin. He thinks that he is Napoleon and his lugubrious schizophrenia prompts him to describe Claudette Colbert as "La Duchesse" and to murmur 'Waterloo!" with the pensive intonations of a hoot-owl. His resourceful guards recapture him by singing "La Marseillaise." Meanwhile Claudette Colbert's squeals grow less indignant...
...otherwise febrile and careless issue of the Harkness Hoot appears a forceful broadside against the Yale School of Drama. In this trenchant indictment of a strictly vocational institution glorified by an attractive title into a School of arts, the writer charges that the present institution was founded by money from Wall St. Alumni for the sole purpose of advertising their alma mater through its possession of a superior School of Drama...
Vibrant though it is with the overtones of the Harkness Hoot's unrelenting radicalism, R. S. Child's "Portrait of Undergraduate Yale" in the Nation is nevertheless a careful and well-balanced analysis. The article is specially interesting for its candid picture of the relations between academic and non-intellectual activities...
Last year the newly inaugurated "Harkness Hoot" set the college, and for that matter all Yale, circles by the ears with its plausible and swinging attacks on everything from the university architects to the sacred institution of Tap Day. "The Hoot" was edited by one of Yale's brightest of bright young men, Mr. William Harlan Hale, who, since his graduation has kept his by-line alive in periodicals of greater scope and pretentions, but who, to accomplish his aim, had resigned from the editorial board of the ancient. "Yale Literary Magazine," taking a companion or so with...
...Lady in Brown" has bobbed her hair, enlisted the services of a typographical Patou in beautifying her person and has appeared in a brand new and handsome format. In addition to this the editorial content of the issue evidences a vitality and sanity which will make "The Hoot" look to its bays and laurels. The New York Herald-Tribune