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...Geological Conference will conduct a symposium on the work of the late Kirk Bryan, professor of Physiography, at 8 p.m. tonight in the Geological Museum Lecture Hall...
...taken Tennessee William's comedy and faithfully translated it into celluloid. Marion Brando's screamingly funny performances on Broadway is here duplicated by the antics of Kirk Douglas; and Jane Wyman, as William's limping heroine, gets her own share of laughs. Gertrude Lawrence's characterization of a fading southern belle however, while funny, cannot come up to the standard set by Douglas. "The Admiral was a Lady," with this at Boston's Metropolitan Theatre is nearly as good...
...Kirk Douglas is competent as the "gentleman caller" but is outclassed by Miss Lawrence, Miss Wyman, and Mr. Kennedy and, whereas in the play the caller was a doltish sort of a fellow putting on an act, he emerges as a bright, slick young man in the screen version. Somehow the original caller was more consistent with Williams' description of the entire work "a picture of a fundamentally enslaved section of American society. . . living in huge buildings always burning with the slow implacable fires of human desperation...
Endlessly she nags her son, a dreamer trapped in a shipping clerk's job, to bring "a gentleman caller" to the house. At length he brings a warehouse co-worker (Kirk Douglas), an ambitious self-improver, glib, personable and halfsincere. Putting the best face on an uneasy situation, Douglas enchants the girl with compliments, a dance, a kiss. Then he dashes her by owning up to a fiancée and making an awkward exit...
...University lost two professors by death over the summer. Kirk Bryan, 62, professor of Physiography died of a heart attack on August 22 at Cody Wyoming; Harald M. Westergaard, 61, former Dean if the Graduate School of Engineering, and Gordon McKay, professor of Civil Engineering died on June 24 in Cambridge after an illness of several months...