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Harvard's strict regulations were framed to meet the conditions of dormitory life in Cambridge. They have for the most part accomplished their purpose and when administrated with reasonable flexibility, satisfied all parties concerned. With the advent of the House Plan the circumstances of dormitory life are somewhat changed, especially in regard to the situation that necessitated the present rules. A new set of local conditions combined with a general new attitude throughout the country on this question suggests a possible revision of the Harvard regulations...
...been increasingly difficult for the theatre world to maintain itself since the advent of the talking movie. The coming of other vicarious amusements has made its problem more complex. The public was beginning to for get it. Boston audiences have never been particularly enthusiastic or acute. There are only a handful who prefer the legitimate parent to the illegitimate son. The ruck are either too dull to fathom the sensible, or too untutored to follow the trivial...
...Steelman Schwab was optimistic last week - he predicted the early advent of "a larger measure of prosperity than the American people have ever known before" - so was many another tycoon throughout the land. At the same meeting at which Mr. Schwab said, ''We're having beer now but when summer comes we're going to have champagne," James Augustine Farrell, trim and stocky little president of U. S. Steel, declared: "We have in our hands the power to restore the steel industry to prosperity in 60 days. . . . This is no time to pinch off a penny...
...whose leg has been amputated complains of a pain in his toe, would have justified much of inexperienced Director Edgar Selwyn's blood, sentimentality and synthetic thunder. Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames and June Walker are in it. Best shot: the officers' party. Silliest shot: the advent of Anita Page's baby...
Long white gloves, high silk hats, flashlight photographers, society reporters, scribbling furtively on folds of paper, critics mooning in their aisle seats-these adjuncts of the advent of another season of grand opera were this week on view in the opera houses of Chicago and Manhattan. In Philadelphia they had appeared the week before...