Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Play in all House tournaments will start on the first pleasant...
With a fast moving script of short episodes tied together by the announcer's comment, "Adventures In Education" will stress a new technique devoted especially to entertainment. Although describing the work of the Undergraduate Faculty, the program is really a play in itself along the lines of "The March of Time." Script writing and direction are in the hands of Lawrence Lader, '41, and Lincoln Bloomfield '41, while the east includes Raymond Dennett, Gradoste Secretary of Brooks House, Langdon Burwell '41, John Kessler, '42, Lader and Bloom field...
...Koufman, standbys from last year, while Leverett is depending on Harry Burgess, another of the all-House boys from last year. Eliot, headed by hoop-rolling Ed Reed, has not yet turned out a full team at any one practice, but 15 men have signed up to play...
...been said that Greenwich Village during the twenties was filled with young men writing novels about young men writing novels. S. N. Behrman, in his latest play, "No Time For Comedy", has gone the young men of Greenwich Village one better. He is a young man, or at least a middle-aged man, who has written a play about a young man writing a play about the wife of a young man writing a play. The total effect, leading up to a grand climax in the last act, leaves the audience a bit at sea about what playwright is writing...
...show at the Wilbur does not really seem to be a play at all, but merely the discussion of the possibilities of plays. It is an illuminating and entertaining discussion, to be sure, but it gives the impression that Mr. Behrman is spending three acts rolling up his sleeves and sharpening his pencils without ever really getting down to work. He has spent three acts in eloquent defense of comedy and yet has only succeeded in writing a comedy which is self-conscious, superficially novel without being actually original...