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Hollis--"The Poor Nut," at 8.20 o'clock...
Hollis--"The Poor Nut", with Elliot Nugent, at 8.20: Cracking wise on the college nut with no moments of incongruity...
...under her own name of Norma Lee, plays the leading feminine part opposite her husband, discussed with enthusiasm the work of depicting college life on the stage, as they sat at a late breakfast in the Hotel Bellevue. Patterson McNutt, producer, actor, and journalist, who is presenting "The Poor Nut" in Boston, who was also present, was primarily interested in the future of the "college life" drama...
...genuine, clean humor of student life," he said, "is a natural source which will be drawn on more and more. In the 'Poor Nut' there is the additional satirization of the athletic 'ballyhoo', and the fraternity life more prevalent in the Middle-West than in the East...
...Ohio State, where he was active in college journalism as well as dramatics, had already appeared on the professional stage. The son of actor parents, he was, while still a child, making regular appearances as "the boy monologist". Together with his father, J. C. Nugent, he wrote "The Poor Nut", which is a play of his college and the characters are close imitations of the students and faculty there...