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John Ford's The Informer (1935) and a 30-minute short, The River, by Pare Lorentz. Thursday, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m. Fanny, directed by Marc Allegret and written by Marcel Pagnol (1932), plus a Chaplin short. Sunday, Sept...
...Lorentz curve comparing the national income figure to those of Harvard students (and also to the tuition-less City college of New York and the national collegiate average) shows how Harvard's income distributions differs from the rest of the country. A number called the Gini Index shows how unequally the total goods of the nation are divded up among the total population. The most the Gini number can equal is 1. If the number is 1, then the person in question has all the goods in question (in this case, representation in Harvard's student body). For Harvard...
...central pair of young lovers--"poor little rich girl" Polly (Alice Therese Burns) and rich little messenger boy Tony (Pare Lorentz, Jr.)--also left more than a little to be desired. Miss Burns, who joined the company just two weeks ago, was sweet but not sufficiently at ease, and her singing voice, while pretty, was sometimes lost in the accompaniment. Mr. Lorentz's voice suffered no such indignity, and was among the best on stage, but his acting was otherwise awkward...
...Since the debate was going to be humorous anyway, this disadvantage was actually a windfall," James D. Lorentz, Jr. '60, Chairman of the Debate Council, commented. "Now that we really have something to joke about, this should prove a truly absurd evening...
Other leading players are competent, but usually only that. Pare Lorentz suffers from stereotyping. He has played the part of the clean-cut, pure-hearted hero so often in Pudding shows that it is liable to become second-nature to him, unless something is done soon. He has more lines and worse ones than most of the characters, and only one song that he has a chance with. Rupert Hitzig, playing Lorentz's romantic interest, is also hampered by too much dialogue and a weak singing voice. He tries hard with the one song he has that packs any punch...