Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lyman Burbank '38 and F. Welch Peel '39 will support the negative for Harvard against Brown's veteran debaters Frank Licht and Howard C. Olsen, accompanied by their team manager William E. Lebowich...
...Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present Bronson Howard's "The Henrletta" on Friday and Saturday evenings, March 11 and 12. On Friday evening the play is to be followed by formal dancing till 2:30 o'clock and on Saturday evening by an informal frolic till midnight...
...continuing in their tradition of reviving old favorites of one, two, or three centuries back. "The Henrletta," written in 1887, is probably Howard's greatest work. Consistent with his theory that the master theme of America is big business, he brings forth in this play a tragicomedy of the stock-ticker. Trenchant satire aimed at those for whom business is "health, religion, friendship, love" is the core, "The Henrletta" is well above the level of melodrama, and hence there will be no burlesquing of maudlin morality, but rather a serious rendition of serious social comment, on the theme that...
...Slight Case of Murder (Warner Bros.) is the riotous cinemaversion of the Damon Runyon-Howard Lindsay play about four uninvited, neatly plugged corpses in the Saratoga mansion of a Broadway beer baron (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). With cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
William Randolph Hearst probably would not employ a self-styled Communist. But he knew that Communists were on his payroll, and that they were numerous and strong enough to finance a house organ (Hearst Worker) for many months. There have also been Communists on the Scripps-Howard papers who published a fiery Beacon when they had the time and money...