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Leslie Howard is the same polished and svelte being though at times his interpretation of unnatural is a bit excruciating. And Heather Angel, acting for Helen Pettigrew, is both very good and very real and renders the lachrymose delicately, but yet not too heavily. All in all "Berkeley Square" is a delightful and attractive production...
Three weeks ago Arnold Schönberg landed in the U. S., surprised everyone by being a shy, mild little man not a bit fierce or radical in his comments on music or German politics. This week Schönberg classes began in Boston and New York. Paying pupils were few. Some 50 would-be composers had sent in scores, hoping to win scholarships offered by Stokowski, George Gershwin, Mrs. A. Lincoln Filene of Boston and the Steinway and Knabe Piano Companies. But if it was impossible to prophesy what importance Schönberg would have as a teacher...
...with Exeter which defeated Yale 13-7. However the Yale Fresh can boast of a victory over the Princeton Freshmen, and another victory over Andover which defeated the Harvard Fresh 7-0. The teams are nearly equal in weight, although Yale's line may outweigh ours a slight bit...
...attitude of University Hall toward the matter is demonstrated by the decision last year to exempt Senior honors candidates at the discretion of course leaders. A slight push by the Student Council might well send the April hours into oblivion, and administer a suitable coup de grace to a bit of red tape outgrown with the introduction of the concentration plan...
...education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened public servant and uttered before presumptive students, had all the carmarks of political device. Mr. Cross was content to run the customary Deweyan gamut, and to garnish his loopholes with a fine show of classicism...