12 May 1939
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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1939
Page
1
The text outlines a planned colloquium for social science majors focusing on a single major problem each year. It aims to balance historical roots with current issues, offering objective investigation to understand how history shapes present difficulties.
The article contrasts Miss Davis view of a student rebellion in literature with Mr. Jack’s pessimism. It outlines plans to republish Davis piece in the Virginia Spectator and to feature a college writing from another school in Quarterly. The aim is to spark experimentation while preserving tradition.
A travelogue of visiting the New York World of Tomorrow World’s Fair. The writer recalls wandering the fair on a Friday night, noting overpriced eateries, broken guides, long walks, and the lack of an honor system for coat checks. The piece ends with the reviewer doubting the fair’s claims.
A travel note invites readers to Merrie England to see the Globe Theatre approach. The piece describes four Shakespearian comedies performed in a streamlined fashion and praises the lead actress as a lively Kate. Visitors are told to expect noise and ham acting, plus a comfortable seat for forty cents.
A nostalgic piece on the 1964 World’s Fair noting music blending with the ambient sounds of buses. The writer recalls wandering the perisphere and trying to identify Brahms amid bus horns playing East Side West Side while joking about Albert Einstein’s future memories.
A collage of student replies reveals dreams of seaside vacations with fiancés and families, world travels, camp jobs, theater work, Macy’s retail stints, Moon trips in fair halls, and pursuing study or social projects. Many seek New York offices, Connecticut camps, or library coolness to beat the heat.
The Columbia Theatre Associates stage a Kit Marlowe pastiche featuring Amaryllis entering a modern lawyer’s world. Lizbeth Ann Webster shines as Ann, with Mary Charlotte McClung’s musical score and strong production, though some lines fall flat and the final scenes seem unnecessary.
The Federal Theatre's eighteen scene revue satirizes government job programs with a mix of old gags and topical bits. The Last Waltz set in Vienna 1938 appears as the only tragic thread, while sketches poke at WPA, Grover Whalen, and social topics with light applause at curtain.
The piece notes that the film hinges more on Bing Crosby and Joan Blondell’s musical performances than plot. It praises Mischa Auer as a standout comic partner, joking that the real attraction is the comic pairing of Auer and Sandy, a nine or ten month old infant, amid a lighthearted, music driven comedy.
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur debut together in Only Angels Have Wings at Radio City Music Hall, a tropical romance about American flyers. Crime in the Maginot Line opens at 55th Street Playhouse with French war ministry cooperation. Youth In Revolt by Benoit Levy premieres at Fifth Avenue. Ballerina by an American premiere explores a utopian mountain republic. New Horizons from Koz and Trauberg screens at Cameo Theatre with Boris Chirkov and Vera Kardina. Shostakovich scores the music for a post Tsarist era drama set in 1917.
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