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...shrieking alarm clocks ever caused the University Theatre half so much trouble in its 25 years as a single CRIMSON editorial campaign." When the University finally decided to abolish tutoring schools in 1940 we lost about half of our regular student audience," laments Stanley Summer, manager of the UT. "Students became afraid to go the movies every day without having any cram schools to prepare them for finals...
Sumner has been with the UT ever since it was founded, back in the days when "Student Stage Smokers at Mid-Nite Saturday" were a regular part of the theatre's program. The smokers, which consisted mainly of rather ragged vaudeville acts, had to be discontinued after a while because of what were then termed "disturbances...
...crowing "disturbance" came in February, 1927, when 40 students were arrested after battling a vast assemblage of local policemen following a "Mid-Nite Smokers." One policeman told the court that some of the students had been taking their minds off the UT's performers by drinking "some of that awful modern liquor--stuff I wouldn't feed my own children...
...later years things calmed down a bit, though the Theatre and its non-Harvard patrons were constantly plagued by club and organization initiation stunts. During the late 20's the UT played one silent picture featuring an alarm clock which woke up the hero in several crucial scenes. During an afternoon showing just as the camera focused on the clock, the theatre was suddenly split by a tremendous shrieking of alarm clocks. "The next morning our ushers alone picked up 25 or so clocks which the students left behind them," Sumner recalls...
During the 30's political feeling roared high through the University, and was noticeably reflected in the UT's audience. Three thousand students signed a petition protesting as "sword-rattling" the Hearst Newsreel which the Theatre subscribed to. Faced with over-whelming disapproval, Sumner withdrew the newsreel...