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Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, the competition has been planned not only for men interested in the technical side of radio, but also for announcers, script-writers, and men with original program ideas...
Places are open especially for script writers with a knowledge of classical music, but because of the summer personnel shortage, positions are open on all boards. Summer School students who are not undergraduates of the College are not eligible for membership on the Network, but they are urged to visit the station's office if they care to participate temporarily in its activities...
...week's presentation at the Brattle Hall Theatre, is like a lot of other comedies. It starts off rather slowly and aimlessly, manages to become semi-amusing at the end of the first act, and from there on turns into a really funny show, as the actors and the script lose their awkwardness. It never becomes first-rate comedy, however, because it is never really convincing. The plot and the characters are too trite to make it anything more than a clever drawing-room farce in which the characters speak and act as they are expected to in such...
Though all this is rather stereotyped, it is carried along very smoothly and wittily (after the first act) by an excellent script an some good acting. Madge Evans as Lydia Kenyon, the heroine, is all that she should be; beautiful and charming. Robert E. Perry, who plays her husband, is by far the best actor in the cast; he is the only one who managers to look natural in the first act, perhaps partly because his lines are the only ones which talk as a human being should talk, but mainly because he seems to know better...
...Director. There is nothing loud about softspoken, chunky, wire-haired Director William Wyler, but he had to serve a noisy apprenticeship to prove it. He has been a Hollywood office boy, publicity man, script clerk, director of hundreds of leather-lunged Westerns...