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...Dramatic Club last night issued a call for all men interested in stage and costume designing to apply for the job of providing the background for this year's play. Andrew McCullough '45, president of the organization, said that a prize of thirty-five dollars would be awarded to the student who is judged most capable of doing...
With three months of accusation and attack behind it and an immediate background of daily public sniping since the start of the fall term, Monday's joint session of Student Council members and men from the summer investigating group seemed doomed to failure. That the representatives succeeded in side-stepping personalities, in resolving procedural problems, and in setting the stage for intelligent and rapid work on the real issue at hand should betoken the beginning of a second and more productive stage in the job of reorganizing the Student Council and its constitution...
...Including: The Universe Around Us, The Mysterious Universe, The Stars in Their Courses, The New Background of Science, Through Space and Time...
...Month Club's dual selection for September (with Animal Farm-TIME, Feb. 4). Described by the publishers as a novel, The Sudden Guest is in fact little more than an elaborately contrived but not penetrating character study, with the East Coast hurricanes of 1938 and 1944 as background. The hurricanes blow an assortment of people into Miss Leckton's little world of servants, silverware and unearned income. She resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews...
...wastes the hard-working actors, famed Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), the Technicolor, the dressy sets. Only item worth the expense: the brilliant piano playing on the sound track by Artur Rubinstein, who was paid $85,000-a whopping price, even in Hollywood, for a musical background...