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...Herbert Hoover once attended Pacific College at Newberg, Ore. Last week Dr. Levi Talbot Pennington, its president, was at the White House to interest President Hoover in a campaign to raise $300,000 for Pacific's endowment...
...quartet, which is brought here through the courtesy of the Library of Congress, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, consists of the following players: John Pennington, first violin; Thomas W. Petre, second violin; William Primrose, violoncello; and C. Warwick Evans, viola...
Heralded by this pat and pleasant show-title, Miss Ann Pennington once more recommends herself to a Harvard following. If spontaneity is one's criterion, as it is the Playgoer's, she is the whole show. The years have not taken away the sparkle of that diminutive dancing figure. She still can hold the attention against all the cast around her. One scene in particular comes to mind, where Miss Pennington, elevated above the other figures of the ensemble, is revealed by the rising curtain in a dimly-lighted setting of red, black, and purple. Slow music, with the drums...
...Miss Pennington's spontaneity does not extend to the plot, which seems to an admittedly intolerant Playgoer just another refurbishing of ideas that were old even before "Jack O'Lantern" came to town. Such matter as the old pun about coffe-grounds, or the mix-up taken from O'Henry's "Gifts of the Magi," or the business of loading teacups with sugar-lumps as a sign of abstraction--all these held no charm for the Playgoer, while the very smoothness and finish of the performance depressed him. For as he watched Mr. Shaw's infinitely competent capering, he hoped...
John Boyle, New York producer, has again been engaged to direct the play. Boyle, who has worked with Jack Donahue, Ann Pennington, and Marilyn Mille", was largely responsible for the staging of the last two Hasty Pudding theatricals. Boyle will be assisted by Dr. Theodore Spencer, a member of the English department, who is revising the book and music. Dr. Spencer is a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and the Marlowe Society of Oxford University, England...