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Dates: during 1930-1939
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UnTiMEworthy is the phrase in TIME'S review of Tonight at 8:30 calling Noel Coward's harlequinade the "first smash hit of a middling season." On Oct. 16 (day following opening of Gilbert Miller's Tovarich), owl-eyed Brooks Atkinson of New York Times chuckled, applauded, said: "Tovarich is the season's first hit." On same day, scholarly, professorial looking John Mason Brown of the Post said: "Tovarich is the first smash hit of the season." Richard Watts, Jr., blue-shirted, plumpish pundit of Herald Tribune called Tovarich "the first resounding dramatic smash...
...undergraduate taste is tickled when members of the genus "Facultas Academiae Harvardianae" take an interest in things. The following piece, reprinted from "Letters to the Editor" in the December 5 issue of the "Saturday Review of Literature", shows what we mean...
Publication of a new undergraduate magazine, the "Harvard Guardian," a review devoted to History, Government, and Economics, will begin in March, it was learned last night...
...review will contain articles concerning the social sciences, book reviews, editorials, and letters, written largely by undergraduates, and at least one faculty article a month, the editors stated. Between six and eight issues will be published during the academic year, and the subscription rate was tentatively...
First and foremost of the troubles besetting the "Monthly" is what appears to be a confusion of motives in the minds of its sponsors. The aim of publishing a current review of topics interesting to Harvard men deserves a spirited rendition of "Wintergreen". It touches the weakest spot in the armour of "Lampoon" and "Advocate" partisans. The "funnyman" makes no more mature interpretation than youthful jollity and a liberal allowance of beer can produce, while the muses of the "Advocate" often walk too high on literary Helicon for the vulgar population to follow them. Yet if the intended sacrifice...