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...play could stand more discipline; along with an absence of formulas there is sometimes an absence of form. And it could stand more variety: only the clash between Blanche and Stanley (brilliantly enacted by Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando) gets real emotion and drama into the play. As in much recent writing about the South, the ugliness is easily offset by the fascination, and the South itself seems warm, vaporous, even visible in Streetcar, like steam on a windowpane...
Other gifts included $100,000, given anonymously for geophysical research, $150,000 from the estate of Marlon Ruby Case for the Arnold Arboretum, numerous Harvard fund subscriptions totalling $113,400.28, and other grants which the University listed as "gifts for capital," such as funds for the treatment of epilepsy, upkeep of the Yard, applied science, and the Music Department...
Candida's scalawag father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) was often amusing; the prissy Prossy (Mildred Natwick) almost always was. But though Marlon Brando got a measure of individuality into Marchbanks, Shaw's soft-shelled poet seemed once again a wight that never was on sea or land. And Parson Morell (Wesley Addy) was not the man for whom Prossy would have pined or Candida gladly drudged. Candida's choosing him over Marchbanks seemed largely, last week, like choosing the lesser of two evils...
...their strength on the main sheet, leaving their Socratic mentors in the Yard to find them new questions for the winter bluebook season. But they do not leave Dr. Lowell behind. Harvard's honored ex-president spent three days of July cruising from Mr. Desert Island in Maine, to Marlon on the Cape, and had so much animal spirits left when he arrived there that he insisted on rowing the rest of the schooner's crew around the Harbor in a dinghy. Exercise is essential to Dr. Lowell; walking on land, rowing on water...
...Clarence Cook Little '10, formerly secretary to the Corporation and more recently President of the University of Maine, has now taken over his new duties as President of the University of Michigan. He succeeds the late President Marlon LeRoy Burton, the noted educator who nominated Calvin Coolidge for the Presidency of the United States a year and a half...