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...have let the play burlesque itself. The contrast of the serious treatment (at least fairly serious treatment) with the ludicrous pathos of the melodrama, is undoubtedly the funniest effect that could be obtained from the material. Much of the credit for this restraint is due to director Howard Mumford Jones, the well-known novel man. He has, however, let none of the grandiloquence escape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

Well developed by the able coaching of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, and by weeks of careful rehearsal, the performance should ring true to the spirit of the nineties. Professor Jones himself was loudly hissed as the villain in a performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D.U. FRATERNITY OPENS GAY COMEDY TONIGHT | 3/11/1937 | See Source »

Speakers at the annual dinner of Phi Beta Kappa on Friday evening, December 4 will be Felix Frankfurter '06, Byrne professor of Administrative Law; Howard Mumford Jones, Gurney professor of English; Charles A. Coolidge '81, fellow of the college; and Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, professor of Banking and Finance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANKFURTER TO SPEAK AT INITIATION OF P.B.K. | 12/1/1936 | See Source »

...Howard Mumford Jones, of the University of Michigan, English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: List of Today's 62 Degree Recipients | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

...seven members appointed by liberal little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia scorned the majority recommendation that Frederick Bertrand Robinson should be retained, but with disciplinary powers clipped. When the Board voted further to select a subcommittee to figure how this was to be done, two members, Art Critic Lewis Mumford and Scripps-Howard Financial Pundit John T. Flynn, disgustedly snorted: "Whitewash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Umbrella President | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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