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...best which the society has given". It contained several travesties of Wellesley traditions and customs, particularly a take-ff on the Wellesley crew which according to a Boston paper of that date "brought forth shouts of applause" from the audience. Officially named on the elaborate program as "A Comic Opera in Two Acts" the show made so great a hit that the "Herald" on the following day came out with the statement that "seldom has the Wellesley world roused itself to keener enjoyment and heartier abandonment than that of last evening...
Bluffing Bluffers was a minor grain in the Christmas grist. It started out to laugh at politics-usually not a difficult thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...
...what one may call by contrast the world of thought, quite the opposite was the case. Pure science and the purely cultural subjects, such as classics and literature and art, are absolutely inferior in most cases, and usually neglected. The situation in regard to them is either tragic or comic. Accordingly, although one meets students who obviously show promise of becoming great engineers, great doctors, captains of industry and so forth, one rarely if ever meets a student who seems destined to become a Darwin, a Beethoven, a Shelley...
Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers are satisfied by the noises which may be transmitted to them over the ether. But even in their case, and though they delight in listening in on Presidential speeches, football games, ball games, jazzy funnymen, first aid lectures, bed-time stories and advice to mothers, their interest is thus aroused in their newspapers. They delight in reading what they have heard. Many of Mr. Rose's friends told him that radio has made them read the newspaper accounts more eagerly. More critically...
...first in order is John Finley's "College for Knowledge." Here, after his brief excursion into the realms of sentiment. Mr. Finley returns to his former suavely acid insinuations, and quite convinces us that the entire Workshop affair is after all, merely another absurd and inconsequential eddy in the comic stream that college is. Hugh Whitney's "Ballad", next in order, is exquisitely done and comment seems superfluous Whitney Cromwell unleashes the ironic whiplash of his tongue in "The Salesman", and Charles Allen Smart, in the last of the four distinctly good things in the number, presents a vivid picture...