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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defensive work, on the other hand, has been consistent only in its unpredictability. The Yardlings show a record of five victories, three losses, and one tie after three weeks of play...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...problem facing the college critic of the Theater Workshop's productions of the last three years has been two-fold. First, he must search each time for new superlatives (for each show has been better than the last, thought the plays have not all been equal) and he must restrain himself in order to retain the reader's respect. Second, he must remember (and this is hardest) that he has witnessed an amateur production put on by his fellow students. I now have this problem, "The Tempest," which opened last night, is the Workshop's master concoction. They have emptied...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

Curtis Harvey Jones '50 of Radnor, Pennsylvania and Winthrop House was named chairman of the Key's Non-Athletic Committee, which among other jobs, supplies guides to show official visitors around the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruce Harriman Will Guide '49-50 Crimson Key Society | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

Besides this, members of the Key make up a volunteer guide brigade to show the University to visiting functionaries, who this year have ranged from a Brazilian radio commentator to the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Crimson Key Finishes 1st Year as Welcome Mat | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...plot involves Shirley Temple, a nut-brown coed who later turns out to be a widow with a three-year old child. It's the same old saga of campus love, and falls down badly. Fortunately the focus is always on Clifton Webb, who like Bobby Clark, is a show by himself. His attitude throughout the entire picture can be accurately summed up in the following exchange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

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