Word: scollay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today we circle Scollay Square, for the Old Howard no less than the New Lecture Hall is an integral part of Harvard life. A poll of a Senior Album several years age reported that the average scholar in the Class of 1940 had attended three Boston burlesque performances (including one midnight show.) The questionnaire also found some 20-odd men who had been present for more than a dozen exposures. One member of the Class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared...
Eager faces turned toward Boston with a set of preconceived conceptions--beans, cods, Cabots, Scollay Square, Cocoanut Grove, some place called Radcliffe, life overlooking the "Yahd," steeped in scholarship--but we soon discovered that we were still in the Navy...
...tiny theatre between Scollay Square and Charles Street Station overcomes its early-season tenseness and returns to the higher standards of previous seasons, it should easily fill the converted stable which it grandly calls an "auditorium." The Playhouse isn't great drama, but the plays are consistently chosen from tested works. Both the triteness and the crowding of wartime movies can be avoided by dropping into Boston's only permanent amateur theatre...
Sparing none of the frightful details that have made Cambridge's Great Breakfast Table Daily the best thing around the Yard, the CRIMSON will teach all comers how to interview queens and photograph legs in the innermost recesses of Scollay Square, how to crash plays and big-time conferences with press cards, not to mention how to destroy University Hall with a powerful stroke of the editorial...
There is the usual running of copy, collecting bills soliciting ads, and in general learning that the foot-in-the-door technique went out when the strip tease came in. You will also learn where Scollay Square...