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After Miss Helen Maud Cam, Radcliffe Professor of History, and Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College, extolled the work of the Arts Theater at Cambridge University, England, and of the active drama department at Smith, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Brattle Theater Director Jerome T. Kilty '49, came to the defense of dramatic activity at Harvard. Kilty claimed University support and guidance a necessary factor but said he felt a separate dramatic department would detract from the regular general Harvard education...
Professor Harry T. Levin '33, chairman of the Comparative Literature Department, will moderate the program which treats the question, "Do we need a college theater?" Panel speakers will include Miss Helen Maud Cam, professor of History; professor F. O. Matthiessen of the English Department; Miss Rosamond Gilder, secretary of the American National Theater and Academy, member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, and former editor of the American Theater Arts Monthly; Rudolph Elie, critic and columnist for the Boston Herald; Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College; and Jerry Kilty of the Brattle Theater Company, formerly with...
Other sponsors connected with the University are Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer in Chemistry, Robert Ulich, professor of Education, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy...
...selected included Chaplin, Keaton, the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, and others. There were six evenings of films and five of discussions. The cost was two dollars for the series, and each subscriber could bring one guest. The discussions on the cinema were conducted by Professors Poggioli, Richards, Levin, Matthiessen, and Coolidge. About 150 Winthrop men became students of the cinema...
...Winthrop series was made an even more complete success by the unscheduled showing of "Monsieur Verdoux," the new Charlie Chaplin film which has been withdrawn from the American market due to the pressure of certain unofficial censuring groups. This special showing was arranged by Mr. Matthiessen who personally requested the film after seeing it at another private performance at Kenyon College. If it had done nothing more, the Winthrop Series rendered a great service to the College in this instance...