Cooke To Deliver Lecture On Contemporary Theater

Allstaire Cooke, visiting English dramatic critic, will deliver the first of two lectures on "The Contemporary Theater" this afternoon at 5.15 o'clock in Emerson Hall. The second lecture will take place on Monday, December 4 at the same time and place.

Mr. Cooke is at present directing the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall show, "Ever The Twain" by Lennox Robinson, which is to be presented at Brattle Hall December 12 and 13. A graduate of Cambridge University and an American dramatic correspondent for the London Observer, Mr. Cooke is making studies for a book on the contemporary American drama. A book of his on motion pictures is at the present time in the hands of the publishers.