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Chrysalis (by Rose Albred Porter; Martin Beck, producer). When this play was first seen in the vernal surroundings of a stock company last summer it was widely regarded as an incipient Broadway success. In spite of the presence of Osgood Perkins. June Walker and chirrupy Margaret Sullavan in the cast, and direction by the Theatre Guild's Theresa Helburn, that judgment may now be set down as premature...
...writers have been so infallible as Rosamond Lehmann. Dusty Answer (1927) might have been a lucky strike; A Note in Music showed it was not. In Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters, both pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian...
...Samuel Clemens was not the first to comment on the weather of Boston and its on-virons. Nor, indeed, was he the last; we, in our time have been moved to expressions of opinions which your estimable sheet would certainly not be safe in printing. If the vernal urge, whatever that is, is at any moment roused, it is in the next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever in the cold clamminess of an April evening in (or near) Boston; how anyone can succumb to the charms...
Once more the vernal cherry-tree is green in memory; and in this false dawn of spring, Art come creeping to Harvard Square. Janus-faced, she looks both before and behind. Looking ahead with the Surrealists, she surveys the works of the Conqueror Worm, when men in the morgue shall be all but ashes and the halibut on the table shall be all but dust. And harking back with Harkness, she emblazons the cravats of Cambridge with a new heraldry...
...vernal outburst having left us, we hasten to put forward the sere and practical message of our hearts. It is, simply, that there would be more time for the honeysuckle if there were more copies of reserve books in the Library. Do these seem unrelated? Not to him who, as a Sophomore, has beaten his wings in a void in vain, hoping to read optional books for Buzzer's History; who, as Junior, has known for his worst enemies those grad students who are also interested in Romantic poetry; who, when all should be feasting and fun and senior singing...