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About this structure is woven a maze of personal and social problems which seem to have been selected solely in the aim of giving Mr. Behrman opportunity to lampoon radicalism and Freud, two sure-fire sources of sophisticated fun. There is a goodly sprinkling of amusing chatter but the procession moves nowhere, which leaves this reviewer a bit unsatisfied. It would be exceedingly pleasant if one could accept the production as an amusing social comedy but when grave problems are seriously injected, one naturally looks for maturity of thought as well as cleverness of execution. One is thus compelled...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/12/1936 | See Source »

Because the Dramatic Club had been rather lax about enforcing Administrative Board rules in previous cases, the Board followed the precedent of the Lampoon reorganization after the Parody number last May and reached an understanding with the Club that there would be a reorganization before the Spring production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB TO UNDERGO REVISION OF CONSTITUTION | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

...into all kinds of scrapes, including a burglary. To collegiate hearts in 1920 she came very close to being the Dream Woman. When the play opened in Boston. Edgar Scott, socialite senior from Philadelphia, translated this widespread emotion about Miss Hayes into the following verse for the Harvard Lampoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

John Frederick LaFarge '38 was elected president of the Lampoon for the coming year at a meeting held yesterday. He is succeeding John Alexander Carley '36. LaFarge's home is in New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFFICERS FOR COMING YEAR CHOSEN BY LAMPY | 12/13/1935 | See Source »

Johnson, whose home is in Swampscott, attended Milton Academy. He is an editor of the Lampoon and is on the Adams House Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST AMES PRIZES GO TO GIBSON AND RICHARD JOHNSON | 11/19/1935 | See Source »

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