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Sweethearts (book by Harry B. Smith & Fred De Gresac, with revisions by John Cecil Holm; music & lyrics by Victor Herbert & Robert B. Smith; produced by Paula Stone & Michael Sloane) emerges after 33 years as a vehicle-a sort of quaint old hearse-for Bobby Clark. It belongs to the Balkan Age of operetta, when princes wooed village maids who eventually turned out to be princesses in disguise, and the most personal and private crises were resolved in the village square...
...sunshine state delegation, including Raymond Massey, whose son is registered here, "fell in love with Harvard's buildings and quaint atmosphere" during its tour, according to Boston Globe columnist Marjorie Adams. Whether University Hall will fall in love with this venture is still an open question, as Miss Howe's book purports to be the inside story of faculty social life. David M. Little '18, Secretary of the University, says that the first move is up to Hollywood...
Paepcke bought one of the old houses, soon returned to buy or lease most of the other buildings. He thought of rebuilding the whole town. But the more he looked at the buildings, the more their quaint, ghostly flavor got him. Result: when he hired Designer Herbert Bayer as architect, Mr. Paepcke (who is the principal backer of Chicago's arty Institute of Design) gave orders that Aspen's once-Gay Nineties atmosphere was to be preserved to the last piece of gingerbread...
With plot and title, this strenuous musical makes a strong bid to get Notre Dame's subway alumni on its side. It will interest few others. The book utterly dulls a bright satiric idea, and the songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget. But in small ways, Toplitzky often goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre...
...British broadcasting isn't in it with you Americans. Here you've made a great study of radio. In England it's very amateur. Our apparatus, compared to yours, is quaint, and we have almost no good producers or writers. There are all sorts of reasons...