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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad farce portraying the woes of an unmarried father with a child on his hands. "Little Accident" is still, after many months, doing big business. And so also is that finest of mystery plays Milne's "The Perfect Alibi". Hoboken offers two revived melodramas, quite the fashionable thing to attend, and there is another resurrected thriller down on the Bowery. Just arrived in town are Drinkwater's latest play. "Bird in Hand", "Mystery Square", a dramatization of Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights" and a farce, "He Walked in Her Sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

...conditions shows the impossibility of consistent neglect of this feature. The CRIMSON'S contention that musical comedy is produced by two other Harvard organizations can only increase the regret that this seems to be the one way to make money without shelying off into the Hassan sort of thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DRAMATIC CLUB'S POSITION | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

...funny how some little thing, irrelevant to the general scheme of the play, catches your fancy and stays in mind long after the rest of the spectacle has vanished. An example of this is one Franker Woods, as the program has him. If we were not dead certain from accounts in the daily press that Fred Stone is at present a broken-legged individual, or at best a golfing convalescent, we would go up to this Mr. Woods, and holding him gently between the thumb and forefinger say "You are Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

...more and more that men coming to college and not concentrating in a language should enter prepared to dispense with the requirements in this field, being equipped well enough for the reading of foreign languages which is necessary in their field. This latest arrangement attempts to do just that thing. It does not however do away with the present means afforded undergraduates for satisfying language requirements, it is merely added as an alternative. The language examinations will be held as usual three times during the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUAGE GHOST SUFFERS SETBACK UNDER NEW RULE | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...Honduras or any other tropical country, army ants might have been used for the rat eradication. These insects travel in regular columns and with horrifying voracity eat every living thing in their paths−insects, mice, rats, snakes, even humans. Natives welcome the ants' arrival to their homes, merely moving out until the ants eat up all the household pests and march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rats, Ants, Snakes | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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