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...great American Museum of Natural History last week showed lesser museums a new way of dodging a deficit. The museum has 35 exhibition halls, 500 employes. Frederick Trubee Davison, the American's new president, and George Herbert Sherwood, its harried director, have found that their available $1,600,000 is $123,000 too little. To save $50,000 they did the obvious-discharged help. (Wages had been cut long ago.) Their new trick saved the balance. They closed exhibition halls in rotation, ten at a time, except Saturdays and Sundays when only four will be shut. The visitor...
...game opened and, although the second and third teams played a great part of the game, it never ceased till the final gun. The summary: HARVARD ANDOVER Ernst, Keyes, Wess, r.f. l.f., Robinson, Berry Confort, Greely, Berry, l.f. r.f., Howe, Avril Silsby, Fields, e. c., McLean, Avery Sherwood, Gibbs, Wills, Higgins, r.g. l.g., Weller, Kellogg Gindy, Knapp, Saxton, l.g. r.g., McElroy, Haviland...
Score Harvard 59, Andover 19. Goals--Ernst, Weiss, Borry 2. Comfort 5, Silsby 4, Sherwood, Higgins, Grady 11, Howe 2, McLean, Weller 2, Kellogg, Haviland. Fouls--Confort 2, Silsby 2, Wills, Sherwood, Grady, Howe 2, McLean 2, McElroy. Referee--Parker. Time--Two 20-minute periods...
When Robert E. Sherwood used to write movie reviews for Life, his column was pithy, though interspersed with light humor. Of late years, he has turned his hand to writing plays, and in the transition has tempered his with even more finely, while building his plots on material of thinner and thinner texture. "The Queen's Husband," presented at the Plymouth by the American Theatre Society, is another well-received example of the later Sherwood tradition...
...which carry the kick of a mule and the sly smile that puts him beyond the reach of the bellowings of the dictator, and the outbursts of the queen, vary considerably in their effectiveness. This is not due to failure in performance, but rather to the fact that Sherwood has drawn his point too fine for maintained effectiveness...