Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settings of A.A. Milne's English comedy, despite the fact that they offered an unusually difficult problem for the designer, will thus again be the work of an undergraduate artist. This is in accordance with the Dramatic Club's policy of making use of student talent where ever possible. The three dimensional treatment so much in evidence in modern scenic design will be followed in the fall production, where actual construction of details of the sets will supplant painted mouldings and bookshelves...
...with the House Plan. The restricted numbers for which the first two Houses provide makes it inevitable that there will be many opportunities for ill-feeling on the part of excluded men. If the responsibility of selection rests with a committee of several different persons it would make it difficult for these men to get adequate explanation of their exclusion. False impressions of favoritism on the part of some members of the committee would be allowed to flourish, and in general the situation would be unfortunate...
...crucial point is the selection of the students for each House. No college in the country, perhaps in the world, has a larger variety of undergraduates, coming from more different kinds of schools, than Harvard. This renders the selection for each House more difficult, and at the same time offers a remarkable opportunity if successfully accomplished...
...animals occasionally gurgling for this talkie, but they are incidental to the plot and are kept in the proper place. Pauline Frederick, an oldtimer on stage and screen, does a fine piece of work in the principal female role of the mother full of maternal affection. It is a difficult role to handle without slopping over into the worst sort of sentimentality and her experience stands her in good stead...
...extremely difficult to pass judgment on an old-fashioned melodrama of the type of "After Dark", now playing at the Shubert Apollo, chiefly because standards of criticism have changed so greatly that for one whose theatre-going has all been in the present, so to speak, there are no comparisons on which to base an opinion. Hastily constructed standards will have to suffice...