Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moderator Harry T. Levin, professor of English, summed up the opinions of six panel speakers at last night's Idler drama forum as "general unanimity to the propsition that we need a College theater; how we can get it must be saved for another...
...heard rumors of $1 a Ib. coffee, were hastily grabbing all they could get. Under such scare buying, coffee prices shot up as much as 25? a Ib. Last week the National Coffee Association estimated that hoarding consumers have already bought at least 132 million pounds more than they need...
...water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...
Professor Harry T. Levin '33, chairman of the Comparative Literature Department, will moderate the program which treats the question, "Do we need a college theater?" Panel speakers will include Miss Helen Maud Cam, professor of History; professor F. O. Matthiessen of the English Department; Miss Rosamond Gilder, secretary of the American National Theater and Academy, member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, and former editor of the American Theater Arts Monthly; Rudolph Elie, critic and columnist for the Boston Herald; Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College; and Jerry Kilty of the Brattle Theater Company, formerly with...
Though I have never seen the Lamats in this play, I'm afraid I was occasionally haunted on opening night by their specters. Miss Farrand and Mr. Fletcher are polished and talented actors and need no apologies made for their performances--still, it occurred to me that "The Guardsman" is one of those plays which very much needs the kind of 'grandness' that the Lunts always bring to their parts. Without that quality, "The Guardsman" is just another pleasantly amusing comedy of the Continental genre, designed to flatter one with its naughtiness rather than honestly exhilarate as comdedy should...