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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presiding at the meeting was Robert L. Green '39 acting in his position as Second Marshal while Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus served as usual in his position as honorary judge. The judges were Mr. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Mr. William James and Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman collection of contemporary journalism...
Clifton Webb carries off the acting honors in his portrayal of John Worthing, who leads a double life as a city rake and grave country gentleman. As the sarcastic and mercenary old snob, Lady Bracknell, Estelle Winwood gives her usual competent performance. Hope Williams is excellent in a rather slim and thankless part...
...conflict with the homogeneous collegiatism essential to a successful class affair. Perhaps more rational is the fear that a single prom of Cecil B. DeMille proportions would appeal only to a limited class of persons, and thus actually would not be a "class" dance--in the usual sense--at all. Miscellaneous objections to the unwieldiness of the affair, the absence of spirit except of the "colossal" sort, the danger of unpleasant notoriety, are heard mainly from those basically opposed to the idea as a whole...
...roses tied with a red bow (on which was stamped a swastika). The party, taken to the Adlon Hotel to wash up, found their suite banked with "more flowers than had ever been in the hotel before." (There were also more steel-helmeted military sentries in the hotel than usual.) As a sobering sight, Nazis let Dr. Hácha review some troops while he waited...
...Dipsy Doodlers played a one nighter at the Roseland Tuesday. All that can be done about it is to wave one leg feebly in the air and pray that the invasion won't come again. If there is one thing that can arouse good musicians from their usual torpor, it is the mention of Mr. Clinton's name, the reason being that he is the most unadulterated copyist extant. He was put where he is because a high executive of a record company had him under personal contract and spared no pains to see that his investment was protected...