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...cooperation with the Studio Players, the Harvard Dramatic Club will offer its members and patrons a private preview of "Uncle Vanaya" by Checkov at the Rogers building on Monday evening, February 22, at 8.15 o'clock. The public opening of the play will be on Tuesday, February 23, in 'Brattle Hall...
...talking cinema. Year ago the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education got up a cinema service, performed by Presbyterian leaders (TIME, Jan. 26). For commercial purposes last week RCA Photophone Inc. dangled enticing names before U. S. congregations, releasing a nonsectarian. 25-min. evening church service. To a Manhattan studio preview went local churchmen, there to see & hear: Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling, famed Dry crusader, kinetic leader of U. S. youth, editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald; Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman of Princeton's First Presbyterian Church and Princeton Theological Seminary; Baritone Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, whose imposing manner...
Churchmen who visited last week's preview were somewhat captious. They listened to five selections by Westminster Choir, a solo by a Miss Lorene Hodap, a scripture reading by Dr. Erdman, a sermon by Dr. Poling defending present-day Youth. Studio atmosphere was reverent: some smoked before, but none during the showing. Afterwards, a few clergymen criticized the choir: it sang too well, over-balancing the rest of the program, and there were too many close-ups of comely Westminster choir girls. Lipstick was apparent. One gentleman observed a glaring omission: there was no prayer! Hastily Promoter Rodeheaver...
...preview in Chicago, 27-year-old Inventor Leonarde Keeler tried out on two members of the audience his "Lie-Detector" which police have found handy for questioning recalcitrant suspects. The '"Lie-Detector" is a device which, by means of arm and chest bands, records on a paper chart changes in blood pressure and pulse action, presumably resulting from emotion. At last week's test, it worked so well when attached to two De Paul University students that Inventor Keeler said: "The results are . . . even more pronounced than in many cases in which suspects are being questioned in connection...
...following preview of "B. J. One," the current Harvard Dramatic Club production which will open this evening at Brattle Hall, was written for the Harvard Crimson by W. E. Harris '20, former member of the Boston Transcript staff, and newspaper critic...