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John Mason Brown To Lecture Tonight

John Mason Brown '23, eminent essayist and drama critic, will give the Winthrop Ames Memorial Lecture this evening in Sanders Theatre. The lecture, entitled "The Dramatic Approach to Reality," will begin at 8 p.m.

Brown, who has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Middlebury, is Chairman of the Alumni Theater Committee.

He has also been a drama critic for the New York Evening Post, the New York World-Telegram and the Saturday Review.

The lecture is in honor of Winthrop Ames '95, who died in 1937, an eminent theatre manager in New York between 1908 and 1932. He was founder and operator of the Little and Booth theatres there.

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