Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Journey's End" is by now so well known that very little need be said of it. It comes to the Wilbur next week, displacing Katherine Cornell's vehicle. "The Age of Innocence". A gripping war play that was first written for production by an amateur mens' club in London and hence contains no female parts, it is even more effective than the success of some years ago, "What Price Glory". In common with most of the more recent literature about the war, it makes no use of melodramatic narrative, but instead paints a series of unforgettable characters and scenes...
...musically inclined, there will be a new musical comedy as well. "Carry On" with Jack Donahue in the leading part will be at the Shubert beginning next Monday. The Albertina Rasch girls make a skillful chorus, while Lily Damita is a convert from the movies who will try her hand at a new type of acting, and should add considerably to the aesthetic appeal of the show...
Friday noon Dr. R. C. Cabot '89 will address students on "The Intelligence of the Human Body." Dr. Cabot is well known for his activities in both medicine and social work, having written several books on these subjects, among which are "Case Histories of Medicine," "Social Service and the Art of Healing," "Rewards and Training of the Physician," and "Social Work...
...granting of such scholarships would show the supreme confidence in the theory that true education is self-education. A start in this direction has been made, however, and some such scholarship might well be established for study at Harvard...
Possibly William Faversham was satisfied with "Her Friend the King", in which he is now playing at the Apollo theater, for it does give him an opportunity to perform three acts in the debonair fashion that becomes him so well. But the play can hardly be said to meet any other standards of taste. The manuscript might well have been a composite of the theater's most familiar scenes, for there is scarcely a situation that has not become painfully hackneyed through years of repetition; and their quality is not improved by the latest transmission. With such material the struggles...