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...Ada-May (she has emulated Mitzi in discarding her last name which happens to be Weeks) is lady dervish No. 1. She has the invaluable ability to go in all directions at once and do it with bewildering rapidity. A moderate vocal ability plus a feeling for jaunty comedy complete her qualifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 4, 1924 | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

This statement was made yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter by Miss Ada L. Comstock, President of Radcliffe College, in behalf of the $5000 drive for the Student Friendship Fund, which will be launched in the University on January 7. This sum will be one of the last contributions to the fund of $176,000 which the colleges of the United States are raising for the relief of European students. Yale collected $5000 over a month ago, and Princeton completed a similar drive last-week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: URGES STUDENTS "TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED" | 12/18/1923 | See Source »

...there is blame it must be laid at Miss Kummer's door. There is a lack of laughter. The company is much the same group that placed The Night Boat and Good Morning, Dearie among the tallest and most enduring of their type, viz., Louise Groody, Oscar Shaw, Ada Lewis, John E. Hazzard. Miss Lewis and Mr. Hazzard do much to 'demonstrate that they can be funny under any circumstances. Miss Groody and Mr. Shaw make excellent love in their normal innocuous style. The Parisian music survives as the most satisfactory contribution to a play that promises much but never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...judges who will award the prize will be Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe, Miss Ellen F. Pendleton, president of Wellesley. Dr. Samuel W. Stratton, president of the Institute of Technology, the Honorable Sir Charles Davidson, former Chief Justice of Canada. Judge Robert Grant '73 of the board of overseers of the University, and Mr. Cyrus E. Dallin, the famous sculptor, and his wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SODALITY WILL PLAY AT SHAKSPEAREAN FESTIVAL | 11/9/1923 | See Source »

...Ada Louise Comstock, sometime dean of Smith College, was inaugurated as the third President of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. Among those officially present were: President Parks of Bryn Mawr, President Lowell of Harvard, ex-President Briggs of Radcliffe, President Neilson of Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Radcliffe | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

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