Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Isn't it wonderful that just a few men can see everything so clearly, that 130,000,000 citizens need not know nor worry about what is happening...
...minor offense. Some time later, the offender was back in college and Benny smiled with satisfaction when he received the cablegram of thanks. This is only one of many times that Benny Jacobson has pulled Harvard men out of the fire with his mysterious sleight of hand. But it isn't always as exciting as this. More often he is asked for advice on questions ranging from mussy suits to entangled love affairs. Three in the morning is no unusual time to get calls from any number of troubled souls in urgent distress...
Fortunately Keep 'Em Laughing isn't all headliners. Jack Cole and his dancers deftly combine Oriental gestures with jazz rhythms; Miriam La Velle does exciting acrobatic dances. But by far the best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who dump loads of bricks, clamber up & down ladders, act tight, sham dead, ride around on scooters and perform on the trapeze deserve the rare compliment that they might have been invented by Walt Disney...
...found it a nice, pleasant orchestra, not greatly different from a bevy of other orchestras. They didn't play much jazz that night, but their numbers were delivered smoothly. I doubt if Adams House will go hog-wild over them, but as I have observed before, the orchestra isn't everything at a House dance. I did like his theme song very much, and hope he plays it all the way through some time. It was a sort of atmospheric Ellingtonian piece with effective use of tomtoms, and I want to hear it again...
...like to call our theatre "the last free theatre in the world," but it isn't Broadway with its strangling commercialism that constitute this free theatre: it might have been the WPA Theatre, until the politicians crushed it; now it is the Tributary Theatre--those hundreds of Players Clubs, Civic Theatres, College Groups and Summer Theatres that extend across the nation. They sustain our national interest in the drama and cater to many more people than ever saw a Broadway production. We may rightly worry about the past New York season, and fear for the future of the commercial theatre...