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Douglas Fairbanks Presents (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBCTV) is a filmed drama series made in Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in pear-shaped tones by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. himself, and including asides on the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, and the suggestion that the international set is rapidly abandoning pink champagne in favor of the more dizzying delights of Rheingold beer...
...incident that Conant even today still recalls with a touch of bitterness occurred at the Yale game in New Haven in 1940. At halftime--things weren't quite so well organized then--a group of three students rushed onto the field to present a playlet in which President Conant was represented as engaged in solitary military drill until a chemical retort was substituted for the gun he was carrying. The slogan of the group that put on the act was "Books, not Guns." Conant was not at the game, but he says now "if I had been it would have...
...incident that Conant even today still recalls with a touch of bitterness occurred at the Yale game in New Haven in 1940. At halftime things weren't quite so well organized then a group of three students rushed onto the field to present a playlet in which President Conant was represented as engaged in solitary military drill until a chemical retort was substituted for the gun he was carrying. The slogan of the group that put on the act was "Books, not Gups." Conant was not at the game, but he says now "If I had been it would have...
Grownups got Bastien and Bastienne, a one-act operetta composed when Mozart was twelve; a mime and dance based on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; a playlet, Mozart Visits the Empress; and a ballet, The Dying Swan, featuring a puppet Pavlova to music by Saint...
...seniors, also heard Antonio G. Haos, Ivy Orator, read a playlet "showing what life at Harvard must be like in the composite American imagination...