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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross Country" is a package show; it will tour night, clubs across the continent when it leaves Boston after a four-week run. At that time an entirely new Max Liebman revue will open at the Latin Quarter. The present show isn't completely successful, but with some betters material and more comedy, the experiment could easily be a shot in the arm for both drooping night clubs and show business...
...obviously imperative that these two structures be demolished. Otherwise this clear and present danger to safety will continue to take its toll from hapless students and local residents. It should be pointed out that these buildings are antiquated and serve no useful purpose; that they could profitably be replaced by a non-obstructive memorial park or playground. There is no alternative--advocates of a traffic light for a corner should realize that lights cost upwards of 250 dollars apiece, and that this year's Cambridge allotment is ear-marked for installation in concentric rings surrounding the Harvard Square Circle--there...
Matthiessen especially urged the building of a theater here. Past presidents Lowell and Eliot refused to set up a theater and dramatic department, but Levin stated that there was a good chance that the present administration might pass a proposal for a theater...
...works show the influence of the first Italian abstractionists; others, like his "The Horseman is Here Again" and "Christ in a Gas Mask," have much of the quality of Durer's woodcuts. Later watercolors, however, are pure reflections of his own creativeness. These paintings, dating from 1946 to the present, repeatedly picture a twisted, angular, skeleton-like creature whom Grosz calls "the Gray Man." Other recurring symbols are an artist's canvas with a hole torn in its center, and a rainbow-colored flag torn from its staff. The series of water-colors, with its fantastic, degraded monsters and burning...
...Brattle Theater Company has in the past devoted its efforts to the ancient and modern classics, and perhaps one could say that "The Guardsman" is a classic of that kind, though of a far different cut of cloth. The fiber is weak but the pattern is bright, and the present wearers have given it a remarkable sheen...