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...outward appearance a true Harvard man. Hoeing confesses to the heathen background of an Amherst A. B. (Cum Laude 1929). He smokes innumerable cigarettes, without removing them from his mouth; from this is derived, no doubt, in an attempt to escape the smoke, the tilt of his head and the squint of his eyes. Nights he is to be seen returning from Hazen's beer parlor, an aged grey slouch hat perched on his head, and the eternal butt in his mouth...
...LAST PIONEERS - Melvin Levy - King ($2.50). Adventures of a Russian Jew against the background of a thinly-disguised seaport on Puget Sound...
...exhibition of water colors by Charles Bopkinson '91, opened yesterday in galleries IV and V at the Flgg Art Museum. Almost all of them are marine pictures and a large portion have as their subject large rocks with the occan in the background...
...cast weaves its way through the messy plot principally against a background of a Roumanian chateau, solidly built, attributable only to the architectural school which conceived Steuben's Rathskeller. Singing with irrelevant gestures, fullface always to the audience, the players in "The Moon Rises" are forced to be more aggressively charming than most musical comedy actors because every line given them, must, to survive, be punctuated with a sweeping gesture, or a flashing smile...
...high cheek-bones and rasping voice that brought Miss Hepburn notice in her early productions seem to have faded a bit into the background. It is a good thing. A bit of extra weight looks well on her and the softer voice will increase the range of her eligible roles...