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...best field of letters. At a testimonial dinner presided over by Pontifex Minimus Henry Seidel Canty, buttressed by such notables as Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas W. Lamont, Owen D. Young, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Felix Warburg, William Allen White, such literary sidelights as Willa Gather, Sinclair Lewis; Christopher Morley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the praises of Thomas Mann were to be chanted, droned and anecdotalized hour after hour at the Plaza Hotel...
...program of the concert will be as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Shoot, False Love Morley Bonnie Dundee Scottish Folk song Dir, Seele des Weitalls, from Cantate for the Freemasons Mozart Choruses from the Gondoliers Sullivan College songs...
Washington's design of Mount Vernon will be the subject of an illustrated lecture by Morley J. Williams, acting chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture. Delivered in Robinson Hall Annex at 8.15 o'clock this evening, the speech is the public portion of the annual meeting of the Georgian Society of America, which includes a number of Harvard graduates and graduate students. Mr. Williams will advance a new theory as to the factors influencing Washington in his estate's design...
...Yorkers last week were discovering a new place to have fun at night, the like of which had not been seen since the days (1928-29) when Author Christopher Morley was producing old melodramas on his "Seacoast of Bohemia" (Hoboken). In an old church on Manhattan's East 55th Street, last occupied by a congregation of Holy Rollers, a co-operative group of actors was presenting The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved...
...merries." Inside, the place looked just like what it was supposed to be: an oldfashioned beer & music hall, with advertisements painted on the olio, tin guards over the footlights. Not only in the matter of eats, drinks and be-merries does the American Music Hall surpass the old Morley productions (which had no tables and obliged the patrons to step down the street for their beer), but its actors for the most part refrain from the broad clowning which evoked lowgrade bellows in Hoboken. On 55th Street one is supposed to be amused gently by the spectacle of a play...