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Reactions of pleased students to motion pictures of real merit build up a strong appreciation from the entire audience, according to Stanley Sumner, manager of the University Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Professors as Well as Students Are Guilty of Hissing, Claims University Theatre | 11/29/1935 | See Source »

...Sumner attributes this to the fact that students are quick to see the hidden meanings and subtle implications in films...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Professors as Well as Students Are Guilty of Hissing, Claims University Theatre | 11/29/1935 | See Source »

Students are not above reproach as far as hissing is concerned, however. "For instance," says Sumner, "undergraduates hiss newsreel shots of Roosevelt, the townies return the compliment when Hoover's visage flashes on the screen." From this reaction he deduces that the student body is fundamentally Republican...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Professors as Well as Students Are Guilty of Hissing, Claims University Theatre | 11/29/1935 | See Source »

Franklin, Emerson, Sumner, Eliot--seem to belong to the distant past. The continued prosperity of the school "in saccula sacculorium" is devoutly to be wished...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/27/1935 | See Source »

Others in the cast are Howard Cook '37, president of the Cercle, Sumner Willard '37, L. M. Ogle '37, Thibault de St. Phalle '39, Richard Wheeler '39, M. S. Variell '37, Richard Turner 1G, Evreue Smyth, and Yvonne Labastie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH CLUB PREPARES PLAY FOR DECEMBER 6 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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