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A screen presentation of life at Harvard is under contemplation, according to an announcement made yesterday by William A. Orr, representative of the Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Company.
For the past two days a large Packard touring car has been circulating about the outlying buildings of the University, snapping shots of students going to examinations and other items of local color, under the chaperonage of several members of the Student Council.
Will Attempt Truthful Version
A request has been filed with President Lowell for permission to take photographs of the Yard dormitories and if this be granted, it is expected that active work on the pictures will be started in the Spring.
The photoplay will in all probability take the name of "Brown at Harvard", the notorious stage representation of Harvard life which when it was presented in Boston some 20 years ago was hooted off by members of the University who objected to its incongrouous notions of Yard life. However, the name of the stage Interpretation will be preserved for its value as publicity, Mr. Orr said, although the motion picture proucers do faithfuly intend to make the finished film a truthful and authentic version of University life.
Remainder Will Be Taken on Coast
If President Lowell consents to having the photographers invade the Yard the remainder of the local color scenes will be taken as soon as possible, and then the films will be shipped to the Pacific coast for continuity.
The Metro-Goldwyn Company were the producers of "The Big Parade", the war picture which is now being presented at the Majestic Theatre in Boston, and a film which has received the enthusiastic applause of oritics throughout the country who have hailed it as the greatest dramatization of war since the "Birth of a Nation".
"The Big Parade" was produced, Mr. Orr stated, with the helpful cooperation of Assistant Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, who graduated from the University with the class of 1900.
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