Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farm of Three Echoes (by Noel Langley; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings in association with Arthur Hopkins). After a great success as a 101-year-old matriarch in Whiteoaks, Ethel Barrymore returned to Broadway last week as a mere chick of 97. At 97, of course, people can do a great many things that would be unseemly at 101, and Actress Barrymore proceeds to do them...
...Broadway critics threw their hats in the air over Playwright Osborn's On Borrowed Time, a deft piece of flimsy-whimsey about a small boy, an old man, and Death kept at bay in an apple tree. When Osborn's Morning's at Seven opened last week, many more critical thumbs went down than hats went up. All the same, Morning's at Seven is as much better than On Borrowed Time as butter is than margarine...
...Seldes & Erik Charell; produced by Erik Charell in association with Jean Rodney). With Shakespeare a hit last season in musicomedy (The Boys from Syracuse) and The Mikado a hit in swing, it was dollars to doughnuts that Broadway would not rest until it had swung the Bard himself. Last week at Radio City's huge Center Theatre it swung him high & wide, turning A Midsummer-Night's Dream into a lavish jitterbug extravaganza. Shifting the scene from Athens to New Orleans around 1890 ("At the Birth of Swing"), it displayed clarinet-tooting Benny Goodman, trumpet-blowing Louis Armstrong...
...made by several U. S. universities-notably Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Minnesota, Stanford -to put social investigation on a scientific basis. In 1929 the University of Chicago dedicated a new building, financed mainly by the Rockefeller Foundation and designed to house Chicago's Division of Social Sciences. Last week social scientists from all over the U. S. assembled there to celebrate its tenth anniversary and take stock of their work. They did not pile up detailed reports of social research. They discussed techniques, viewpoints, "frames of reference," spheres of influence. They seemed to be asking themselves, "What...
...National Resources Committee which, on the basis of trend analysis, listed 13 technologies due for a booming industrial future (TIME, July 26, 1937). Such predictions are made possible by extending (or, in sociological jargon, "extrapolating") into the future the trend line as charted up to the present. Last week Dr. Ogburn observed that trend analysis had enabled U. of C. investigators to estimate the probability of parole violations, of happy or unhappy marriages. Such predictions do not take account of individual exceptions, but-like the death rate statistics of insurance actuaries, who are also social scientists- hold good for large...