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Excursion (by Victor Wolfson; John C. Wilson, producer) is the log of the S. S. Happiness, Obediah Rich, commanding. He and his vessel had grown old together and were both soon to be decommissioned. So he summoned his elder brother down from Yarmouth, got his passengers aboard, tooted his whistle and on a fine Sunday morning, with the sun high in the sky, Obediah (Whitford Kane) and the Happiness set out for their last cruise from Manhattan's 125th Street to Coney Island...
...girls from Gimbel's, the owner's radical daughter and conservative son, the exhausted Jews, the adulterous Irish-take or reject Obediah's offer of escape, how they react to the sudden necessity of facing their inmost problems, is a situation ably handled by Dramatist Wolfson. Hitherto known as an adapter of Left propaganda plays, in Excursion he exhibits a notable capacity for original characterization and narrative. Without sacrificing any of his play's moral values, he manages to bring the Happiness back into New York Harbor after a wild night off Sandy Hook with...
...fatherly Actor Kane, to Author Wolfson, to Director Worthington Miner, to Producer Wilson (on his own for the first time without Noel Coward) and to a large, excellent and largely indistinguishable cast went critical acclaim unusual for the spring or any other part of the season...
...Harvard and that 14 men are on the faculty. They are James B. Munn, professor of English; Samuel Hazzard Cross, associate professor of Slavic Languages; George K. Gardner, professor of Law; Kenneth P. Kempton, instructor in English; Sam B. Warner, professor of penal legislation; Harry A. Wolfson, Nathan Littauer Professor of Jewish Literature and Philosophy; Ronald M. Ferry, master of Winthrop House; Charles F. Brooks, director of the Blue Hill Observatory; Thomas R. Goethals, associate in obstetrics; Paul Gustafson, assistant in obstetrics; Thomas H. Lanman, associate in surgery; Arthur W. Hanson, professor of accounting; Fabyan Packard, assistant professor of hygiene...
Arrangements have already been made to provide for the orthodox Jewish alumni desiring to attend the Tercentenary Celebration on September 17 and 18 according to Harry A. Wolfson, Nathan Littauer Professor of Jewish Literature and Philosophy. Professor Wolfson has arranged to have early services which will be over by 9 o'clock held in the Semitic Museum's large lecture hall or else in the Chapel of the Divinity School...