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...stage, might provide an exciting study in various violent phases of psychology. But it suggests to the imagination a stained and elegant fiction about a creature of the shade, sinuous and fascinating. Katharine Cornell conveys enough of this quality to indicate what might have been possible. Her high cheek bones are blanched, yellowish, sickly, as she reminds her boyish suitor that she lay with the dancer before killing him. When she tears the telephone from the hands of the lover, twisting in his death agony, she is horrifying. But for the most part the play wavers between melodrama which would...
...last night's meeting of the Harvard Dramatic Club, the following officers were elected: president, H.F. Hurlburt '31, who served on the production committees for "Close-Up" last year's spring play, and "Success", which was given last December; vice president, Leslie Cheek, Jr. '31, a Lampoon artist and designer of sets for "Success", treasurer, G.P. Holden '31, who played in "The Chisholm Trail". H.C. Adamson '32 and H.B. Wesselman '31 were elected to the executive committee...
...escaped the fury of the French Revolution only because he was a citizen of out-of-the-way Grenoble. There Henri was born in 1783, and naturally grew up as a republican, to pique his father. He was difficult, even as a child. When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend was his grandfather's valet, who was killed by falling from a mulberry tree. At school Henri won a prize...
...ignorance awakening to find the house in flames. One feels like shouting in impish glee, "Jump, jump, we've got a blanket." But of course it is too late and the venerable figure must struggle through the flames, in the extreme likelihood of having his whiskers singed to the cheek...
Curtis Arnoux Peters ("Peter Arno"), famed caricaturist for The New Yorker (weekly smartchart), quarreled bitterly in the middle of the night with his wife Lois Long ("lipstick"), colyumist for The New Yorker ("tables for two"). They told the police that a deep cut in his cheek was a slip-of-the-razor, not caused by her hurling a glass powder-box at him. Calming down, they decided to separate for one year...