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...Harvard, where his family name is so illustrious as to be a liability, Robert Hallowell was Lampoon president (1909-10), a member of Hasty Pudding, Signet, Stylus, DKE, and a great friend of rollicking John Reed. When a group including Classmate Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly founded the liberal New Republic in 1914, Radical John Reed encouraged Hallowell of the banking Hallowells to take the post of treasurer. Ten years later he suddenly quit, went to Paris, arranged a divorce, became an artist. At 52, Robert Hallowell died...
After seeing the preview of a cinema called Honolulu (TIME, Feb. 20), Manhattan members of the Hawaiian Society got up on their ear, condemned in no wavy way Cinema Tap Dancer Eleanor Powell's version of the hula-hula. Fumed the Society's president: "In the true hula the dancer waves her hands to indicate a fish. She moves her hands to her eyes to indicate eyes. . . . There are many sorts of hulas, including epic hulas. There can even be frivolous or comic hulas. But Miss Powell's is not any of them. It is a serious...
After a year's struggle to strike down the armored opposition to the House Associate Member Plan, the majority of the student body who favor the plan have at last, if not beaten, at least unmasked their opponents. It is now apparent that there is no official opposition to the associate membership plan other than that springing from certain of the House Masters; high college officials, reversing an earlier stand, are now backing the plan. Thus it is the Masters alone who still must be convinced that the disadvantages of the plan do not outweigh its obvious advantages...
Besides her theatrical fame she has the distinction of being one of the three honorary members of the San Francisco Press Club, and in December, 1933, she was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa by the University of Chicago...
...people together in a single movie. This is the accomplishment of "The Shining Hour," now at the University, and even better, these interesting characters rise above the limitations of a trite triangle plot and become real, credible characters. They are Joan Crawford, nightclub dancer, who marries Melvyn Douglas, a member of the rich, aristocratic family of Lindens. Robert Young, in the process of trying to prevent the marriage, falls in love with Miss Crawford himself, much to the distress of his wife, Margaret Sullavan, and his sister, Fay Bainter. Outstanding is the script, which brightens what might have been...