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Most of the New York critics wrote sidestepping reviews. They were dealing with home talent. Librettist Stokes, who used to be critic of the Evening World, was a friend. The polite applause was described in the New York Times as "the most enthusiastic reception given any native music drama that has been produced in New York in ten years.'' No one mentioned the hissing which came from the back of the house after the dream scene of the 15th native work to be produced by the Metropolitan...
...first time in the history of the United States National Squash Championships, Harvard is entering individual and team players on its own, and not combining with Boston talent as in previous years. While not all the men on this "Cambridge" aggregate represent the college, Myers, former Crimson ace, being in the Law School, and Hall, also formerly on the A team, now attending the Business School, the main body of the players including Robert Grant and Tan Sargent, who are to take part in the individual championship, play in this tournament being limited to two candidates from each city...
...first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
Four baits has a university for luring talent to its faculty: 1) prestige, 2) plant & equipment, 3) salaries, 4) academic life. Harvard's prestige, though rivaled, is still mighty. Its plant & equipment are superb. Its salaries, which have not been cut in Depression, rank with the best. But: "Academic life in Cambridge must be made more attractive in a number of ways...
Wrote he last week: "The universities in this country should be the apex of a pyramid based on our highly developed school system. A path to the top should be open to all of exceptional talent. . . . To accomplish its mission Harvard must be a truly national university. . . . We should be able to say that any man with remarkable talents may obtain his education at Harvard whether he be rich or penniless, whether he come from Boston or San Francisco...