Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have known some Harvard boys, but more Yale boys," admitted Ina Ray Hutton, billed this week at a Boston theater as "the Blonde Bombshell of Rhythm." She tactfully hastened to add, however, that the reason for the predominance of Yale could be attributed to the fact that she was in New York and New Haven more often than in Boston...
...having seen a Hasty Pudding show, the blonde baton wielder, expressed some surprise and much amusement to hear that the chorus was of men. "I would like to see them in their costumes," she laughed. "The hairier they are the better, I suppose," Jack Granara, publicity man for the theater, assured us that if time could possibly be found, Ina Ray would make he first visit to Cambridge, before her present engagement ends, and show the Pudding cast a thing or two about dance routines...
...author of "So Proudly We Hail" doesn't like military academies and he says so with vigor and bitterness. Out of the raging violence of his indignation there arise the virtue and the weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national...
...industrialism of the future disclosed by Dr. Bergius; and the startling possibilities of the work done in biological chemistry by such men as Ruzicka of Switzerland; are the parts of the Tercentenary to be permanently remembered. The flattery of Boston newspapers is pleasant, the exercises in the new Tercentenary theater cannot fail to be impressive, nor the fireworks on the river exciting, but all these merely reflect an inner pride. They seem small beside this summer's symposium which is the first such gathering of the world's wise men since 13th century Paris...
Behind the obvious work of remaking the Yard into a theater worthy of Harvard's jubilee, there was an amount of detail and protocol that can scarcely be imagined. On an occasion when correctness must be the First Commandment there was a discouraging lack of precedents to follow. Harvard had never before played host in such lavish fashion, and the rules had to be made up as the game went along. It is certain that Mr. Greene on several occasions must have longed to sit down and write a letter beginning, "Dear Emily Post...