ENTER--THE CINEMA

The presence of fruit stores, not to mention solicitors for charitable causes and free sample dispensers, has kept Harvard Square as busy during the daytime as any reasonable student could wish. What to do with nights, however, and that boresome time later in the afternoon when it is either too cold to row, or too hot to play squash, has been rather a problem. The new moving-picture palace, as is clearly shown by the out of the prospective interior which appears on another page of the CRIMSON, seems especially created to bring new concepts of beauty into the prosaic life of the student. The courses in Fine Arts are well enough in their way, but many undergraduates have found it impossible to follow both the lecture and the pictures, even when the latter remained stationary. But in this newest addition to the potentialities of Harvard night life the student of human nature, or of the screen's interpretation of it, need keep his mind on only one thing at a time.

Then there is the interior of the theatre itself--calculated to dazzle innocent people who do not know that the modern moving picture house is rather a place to try out trick lighting effects and vague will-o-the-wisp lights in the aisles than to display the art of the cinema.

Old graduates may snort at this addition to Harvard Square diversions, and point out that the subway and Boston were plenty good enough for them, but it can be urged in defense that their undergraduate lives were not spent in a constant retreat from automobiles. They needed no relaxation. One feels, especially after the daily, narrow escape, that Harvard Square seems to be getting rather out of bend anyway.