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...nothing radical. The House Plan and the depression continue to act as a spur to better scholarship among undergraduates; college costs have been reduced, and the amount of scholarship aids has been maintained relatively stable; the experiment of exempting seniors from hour examinations should be given further trial; and thee is the old land grave question of how many financially dependent students the College can absorb with benefit both to the institution and to the individual. Problems have arisen and have been met; throughout the whole there is a tone of complacent success which one associates with the annual reports...
Play of the Year was Of Thee I Sing, but George S. Kaufman, its author (with Morrie Ryskind), rarely works alone...
...turn out 80 pages of orchestration a day while his wife reads to him or plays the radio, will seem less significant to laymen than a list of the current shows he has had a hand in. He prepared most of the scores for Music in the Air, Of Thee I Sing, Flying Colors, Take a Chance and Gay Divorce. He lent his expert touch to George Gershwin's Pardon My English which opened last week in Philadelphia; to Walk a Little Faster in which Beatrice Lillie opened this week; to Sissy, Fritz Kreisler's operetta opening this...
...Bratenahl put on full vestments, was photographed giving the Church's solemn benediction to the yapping, scrambling hounds. Prayed he: "Brethren, we are gathered here to ask the blessing of our Heavenly Father upon the Riding & Hunt Club and upon all living creatures belonging thereto. . . . Grant, we beseech Thee. O Almighty God, to these creatures of Thy bounty the shelter of Thy protection...
Christopher Morley, whose taste is not always unexceptionable, might have picked a better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...