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...James Thayer Addison, Professor of the History of Religion and Missions at the Episcopal Theological School, will serve as acting Master of Kirkland House during the academic year 1932-33, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. During his incumbency as acting Master Addison will live in residence in the Master's House; E. A. Whitney '17, associate professor of History and Literature, Master of the House, will be on leave of absence during the academic year, on account of ill health...
...mysteries are easy to parody because they depend upon complications which can easily be exaggerated into absurdity and because audiences, chilled by touches of the macabre, are ready to giggle with relief as well whenever the macabre bubbles over into the incredible. Strangers of the Evening, adapted from Tiffany Thayer's story The Illustrious Corpse, starts in an undertaker's parlor where a young embalmer (Harold Waldridge) is preparing to exercise his talents on a freshly laid out corpse. When two strangers enter the establishment with another corpse, he becomes confused; when one of the corpses gives signs...
Bridal Wise (by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich; Sigourney Thayer, producer). Playwrights Hackett & Goodrich wrote an eminently satisfactory comedy two seasons ago called Up Pops the Devil. Their present piece, staged by that wise theatrician Frank Craven, again reveals the team's genuine gift for comedy...
...Audubon's three largest and finest canvases, an oil painting of "Black Cocks" on a grouse moor, has just been presented to the University Museum by Mr. John Eliot Thayer '85, of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Mr. Thayer has recently given the University Museum his great collection of birds' eggs and nests...
...painting was done by the great American naturalist in 1827 while he was on a visit to Scotland. It was painted for a Scottish nobleman whose family sold it some years ago to Mr. Thayer. The canvas is about six by nine feet, and has the qualities of an eighteenth century landscape...