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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designed as an elementary non-technical course presenting objectively the importance of the "Christian World View in our civilization," the series will continue on Thursday evenings throughout the first half year...
...recent tabulation of the relative standing of the many graduate schools throughout the country Harvard again asumes first place. In the most recent issue of the Alumni Bulletin the findings of Lawrence Foster are opitomised in a reprint article from "School And Society...
...three acts of solid suspense, piffling but none the loss deadly, John Murray and Allen Boretz's "Room Service" surpasses the most lugubrious of tragedies. In fact, although it is farcical throughout and even borders on the slap-stick, it threatens more than once to drop off into sheer disaster. It has to do with the now familiar theme of putting on a show, but the hopelessness of the predicaments into which the youthful producer breezes is amazingly original. Those dilemmas are also uproarious, except that there is grave danger lest the sympathetic souls in the audience become too busy...
Hume Cronyn received a hearty welcome from the first-nighters for the good work he has already done in Boston, and his performance belied no one's expectations. Cast as the hoosier dramatist, he is triumphantly ludicrous throughout. He confides, grins and goes into raptures just as country boys, according to dramatic convention, always do. None of the actors uses any restraint, but in a farce of this sort the heavier the lines are drawn, the better...
Hence there is a somewhat more workaday point of view throughout the book, and mixed in with the anecdotes, gobbets of such practical information as how to handle drunks, raucous, tearful or belligerent; comparative analyses of drunks, male and female; how to tell when a fight is brewing and how to stop it. Collectors of contemporary Americana should note that the book contains an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Largely made up of veiled, bitter aspersions on ladies who run salons and write memoirs, it is only too apparently another reply to Gertrude Stein's strictures on Hemingway...