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...Lincoln, plays an even more difficult role as self-effacing Frau Ehrlich, and plays it better. By shadings of voice, gesture, glance, she becomes the wife who, excluded from her famous husband's death chamber by the presence of his great colleagues and his physician, sits playing the simplest of German love songs: Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. When she can be alone with him at last, he is dead. And her closing of the door upon herself and his body is the picture's last great directorial touch...
...civil servant of the U. S. Broad-shouldered and blond, he looks and talks like a Missouri-born Sunday-school superintendent-which he is. People who don't like him-he is particularly unpopular with malefactors of wealth -say Elmer has a heart of ice. The simplest way for the Federal Government to catch a crook is to look into his income-tax returns. Elmer Irey has done just that, long and efficiently. The story goes that big gamblers nowadays are careful to station a bookkeeper next to the croupier, to keep the figures straight for Elmer...
Walter Fleming, psychiatrist in the Hygiene Department, said of the work of the counselors, "In most instances adequate treatment need not be a very complicated procedure. Sometimes just the taking of a careful history, the clear formulation of a previously obscure problem, coupled with kindly authoritative reassurance, the simplest form of psychotherapy, and all taking place in two or three interviews, are enough to relieve completely very disturbing symptoms...
...then not well-known Maurice Evans, does far better. Hamlet, with John Gielgud, then no name on Broadway, goes over big; with Leslie Howard, a big Broadway name, flops. Tallulah Bankhead cannot last a week in Antony and Cleopatra, Walter Huston cannot last a month in Othello. The simplest answer is almost certainly right: Shakespeare is as popular as his performance...
...Cross '12, one of the outstanding Faculty advocates of greater flexibility in dealing with the tenure problem, argues the proposition that the new style Associate Professorships should be utilized to meet the educational needs which have already become apparent in the brief life of the new dispensation. In its simplest form the proposal is that the threatened gap in undergraduate instruction be filled where necessary and within existing budgetary limitations by the creation of associate professors on permanent tenure for whom there is no vacancy calculably in sight in the full-professorial ranks. The contention that Harvard education is threatened...