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...first two productions. Merry Andrew and Maggie, The Magnificent, were both failures, though not expensive ones. Then came a fortunate meeting. A mutual friend introduced Producer Stebbins and Marc Connelly, onetime newspaper man and co-author with George S. Kaufman of several successful plays (Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton of the Movies). Writer Connelly was trying to sell a play he had written around some Negro stories by Roark Bradford. Producer Stebbins read it, liked it, bought it and produced it forthwith under the name The Green Pastures. Directed by the author, the play opened in February 1930, played...
...comedy in three acts by Viva Tatterstall and Sidney Toler, now playing at the Wilbur, with the following cast: Edgar Smith Richard Taber Nancy Smith Edna Hibbard Tillie Muriel Owen Mr. Peabody Bennett R. Finn Louella McKenzie Ivy Merton Maude Mooney Henriette Farley Oscar Mooney Lloyd Nolan Charlie McKenzie James Spottswood...
...case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa Sig, and stocky James O. Harrison Simrall Jr., quarterback, captain of the 1930 football team, a Phi Delt, and two editors of the Michigan Daily were booked along with the rest...
...which introduced Professor Lowes to his English audience was given on October 15 when a large audience heard him. Since that time he has lectured again, and will continue to speak at intervals throughout the year. According to advice from England, he has been elected a member of the Merton Common Room, a privilege which entitles him to attend the common dining hall of the college. It will be remembered that Merton is the college of Professor Heathcote William Garrod, who held the Norton Chair of Poetry here last year...
George N. Clark, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, is a representative, and is the editor of the "English Historical Review." The last two men are Henry R. Harrod, M.C., student of Christ Church and Kenneth Sisam, B.Litt., M.A., Merton College, as secretary...