Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President and Mrs. Conant cordially invite all those students in the University who cannot be with their family at Christmas to their house at eight P.M. on Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24. Professor Charles T. Copeland will read, Mr. Malcolm Holmes will play the violin accompanied on the piano by Professor Edward Ballantine. The singing of Christmas carols will be directed by Dr. Archibald Davison...
Sporting a new style of play under Coach Blair Guillion's regime, the Big Red team from Cornell is hoping to improve upon its fourth place finish in the League standings last year...
Coach Paul Mooney's team is built around four experienced campaigners who all play basketball the way their head coach wants it played. That means speed to burn, and the three other men are Ed Anderson, Sam Retano, and Jack Naylor, Footballer Art Radvilas seems to have the inside track on the center job, and there are at least four likely looking prospects sent up from last year's Freshman five...
...Author. At 42, with 17 plays behind him, Philip Barry is one of the most unclassifiable of U. S. dramatists. He earned his greatest popularity with such smart comedies as Holiday and Paris Bound. But he is most warmly admired by the elect for an ironic fantasy, White Wings. And he has most thoroughly puzzled and stimulated theatre-goers with his mystical play, Hotel Universe, in its intentions something of a precursor to Here Come the Clowns. Two contradictory kinds of talent are apt to keep Barry from ever becoming a cut-to-measure playwright : on the one hand...
...from Yale in 1918. At Yale he was part of a literary flowering that also included Stephen Vincent Benét, John Farrar, Thornton Wilder. Later Barry enrolled at Harvard in George Pierce Baker's famed 47 Workshop, went from there to Broadway with his successful Harvard Prize Play, You and I. Married and the father of two young sons, Barry for years lived abroad, now lives in Florida. His good friends include such well-known sophisticates as Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart. This fall Barry published his first novel, War in Heaven- Here Come the Clowns...