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Federal Judge John M. Woolsey of the Southern District of New York, who recently spoke at the annual dinner of the Harvard Law Review, has just given the Law Review a present in appreciation of that banquet. The gift was a baton used in Boston in the Colonial days. This baton will be used at all future Law Review ceremonies as its official gavel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 5/5/1931 | See Source »

Federal Judge John M. Woolsey put an end to the $2,250,000 suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are - in Judge Woolsey's words - "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Woolsey, United States district attorney for southern New York, told of his varied experiences as a federal judge. H. McD. Ritchey 3L, treasurer of the Law Review, and toast master also called upon Grenville Clarke, a member of the firm of Root, Clarke, Buckner, and Ballantine in New York city, Professors Felix Frankfurter and Landis, of the Law School, and Claude Branch, United States assistant attorney general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL LIGHTS ADDRESS LAW REVIEW EDITORS | 4/22/1931 | See Source »

Cracked Nuts (Radio). This is a nonsense comedy of which the humor, if any, depends on seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

This evening at 8.15 o'clock in Woolsey Hall in New Haven the University Glee Club will give the traditional joint concert with the Yale singers, with some 60 members of the Harvard group scheduled to take part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club to Sing at Yale | 11/21/1930 | See Source »

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