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TORCH SONG?About a night club crooner who joins the Salvation Army. Some able reporting of the American scene by Kenyon Nicholson (TIME, Sept...
...Boiled Haggerty, The Barker}, onetime Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, onetime actor of melodrama with a kerosene troupe in Ohio, onetime Broadway idol, all his life a student of literature and music; of a heart attack after a hard game of tennis with his wife (Doris Kenyon Sills) at their home in Brentwood Heights near Los Angeles. Eight years ago Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said he: "I went on the stage, you poor ape, because I thought it would give me more leisure...
Torch Song. Few playwrights excel Kenyon Nicholson (The Barker, Eva the Fifth) in exploiting honkytonk, backstage or carnival scenes. Few producers can put on a better show of this sort than Arthur Hopkins, who directed and helped write Burlesque. A Hopkins-Nicholson collaboration has now resulted in an extraordinarily valid and impressive play called Torch Song...
...colleges and universities represented at the tournament last year included Amherst, Army, Brown, Bucknell, Butler, Cambridge, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbia, Cornell, Dickinson, Franklin and Marshall, Florida, Fordham, Gettysburg, Georgetown, Grinell, Harvard, Indiana, Kenyon, Lehigh, Minnesota, Navy, N. Y. U., Notre Dame, Occidental, Oregon, Oxford, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Rice, Rutgers, Southern California, Southern Methodist, Stanford, Swarthmore, Texas, Tulane, Union, Ursinus, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Western State Teachers College, and Yale...
...agree entirely with the CRIMSON in wanting state control of drinking. The government is too bureaucratic in its attempt to lay down the law on such a mooted question to both Walla Walla, Washington, and Belmont, Massachusetts. Under the old Webber-Kenyon act, which regulated interstate traffic in liquor, the cause of temperance was prospering...