CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES WILL TAKE PLACE DURING THIS WEEK IN FIVE HOUSES

Musical entertainments and dramatic presentations will feature the celebrations to be held in conjunction with the annual Christmas dinners in the Houses and in the Union this week.

At the Adams House dinner, to be held this evening at 6.30 o'clock, the guests will be the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88, Mr. Henry Adams '98, and Mr. Arthur Adams '99. Members of the House will present a varied program of entertainment after dinner, to be opened by "Harmonics", a skit by Charles L. Whipple '35 Next on the program is "Dinner at Six-thirty", another skit, by Robert L.C. Rein'l '34. Accompanied by Edwin B. Marshall '34 at the piano, Richard B. Carloton '34 will play two xylophone solos, "Gypsy Mazurka" by Bohm, and "Chanson sans Paroles," by Tschaikowski. The program will be concluded by "Adams House Assizes, Michaelmas Sitting", presented by the Law School members of the House.

The Leverett House dinner, at 6.30 o'clock this evening, will be followed by informal entertainment in the Junior Common Room. Kenneth B. Murdock '16 professor of English, and Theodore Morrison '23, instructor in English, will read selections of their own choice. John R. Walsh, tutor in Economics, will render several baritone solos, to be followed by a group of piano numbers by Morton P. Kahn '34, and a 'cello selection by Frederic H. Tunnell '35. The program will be concluded by an original skit presented by Robert M. Terrall '36. Elting E. Morison 1G, a former chairman of the House Committee, will act as master of ceremonies. He will distribute to various members of the House one hundred gifts of a humorous nature, which have been prepared for the occasion by William D. Cotton Jr. '35 and Frank J. Ritger '35.

Kirkland House will have its Christmas dinner tomorrow evening at 6.45 o'clock, at which only House members will be present.

The presentation of Ben Jonson's comedy, "Bartholomew Fair," will constitute the Eliot House program, to be staged on Wednesday evening. This performance, a three-act version of the original, has been under the direction of Dr. Theodore Spencer, instructor in English, and Professor Francis O. Matthiessen. The play will be presented in the House dining hall after the regular House dinner, to be held at 6.30 o'clock.

On Wednesday evening, after the Dunster House dinner, Dr. Robert Gale Noyes will direct "The Second Shepherd's Play," with a cast starring Walter W. Birge '35, Lawrence von B. Nichols '35, Robert C. Phillips '34, Gordon F. Robertson '36 and Francis F. Silver '34. The production is a medieval English miracle play from the Townley cycle.