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...opportunities for entertainment in Boston this week are distressingly curtailed, what with the theatres dark and "The Woman in Room 13" distributed about the town at the Fenway, Modern, and Beacon. It is a weird "plot pourri" of all the tales handed in at the Fox office this last twelvemonth. Miss Landi tramps along through a divorce court, a murder court, and out to the glaring sunlight of a tennis court where she serves very badly, and back again into prison to see her husband serve for his double fault. It is a grotesque slow-moving business made possible...
...wearing the hat, the other nine hundred and ninety nine, and all arrive at unity through the ability of Professor Merriman. There is the calm precision of Professor Tucker as he unravels the skein of English literature. There is Mr. De Vote reducing the sophomore to a sentimental pot pourri with his tolerant cynicism. There is the deep thunder of Professor Holcombe, inevitable and inviolate as the Monroe Doctrine, settling down over the Carribean. There is the deep rapture and breath taking enthusiasm of Professor McIlwain which sweeps the stupidity of Stephen and of the class into brighter realms. There...
...Currently, a fairly commonplace, fairly attractive poť-pourri of light fiction and articles for consumption by young women. The July issue is Smart Set's final one in the latter form...
...office continued to force the Repertory to go to the ends of the earth for its scenes, and to the musty files of the theatre for its plots, we shall thank God that some gracious chance has thrown Louis Lean Hall into the best pot-pourri. He, with an artistry unique in that cast, achieves the most fascinating transitions in play after play, from African brigand to English sea captain, from doctor to slave without the least show of strain. Long live his daily bread...
Following is the program for the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall this evening: 1 March, "Tannhauser," Wagner 2 Dream Music, "Hansel and Gretel," Humperdinck 3 Pot Pourri of Austrian Melodies," Koschat 4 Waltz, "Harlequin en Voyage," Zach 5 Overture, "Etoile du Nord," Meyerbeer 6 Ballet, "Giaconda," Ponchielli 7 Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe 8 Serenade, Moszkowski 9 Selection, "Faust," Gounod 10 Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 11 Selection, "Erminie," Jakobowski 12 March, "Hungarian," Moldauer