Capacity Audience to Hear Eliot Give Reading Sunday

A sell-out crowd of over 1500 people will jam Sanders Theater at 8:30 p.m. Sunday to hear T. S. Eliot '10 deliver the first reading in the Advocate Poets' Series.

Though Eliot, who will be introduced by Archibald Macleish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, has not revealed the exact nature of the Program, it is assumed that he will deliver a brief, informal talk and will them read some of his poetry for about an hour.

There are still some 400 tickets available at 60 cents apiece to hear a special relay of the reading in Memorial Hall,. If there is a large enough demand for these tickets, which can be obtained at the door, or at Mandrake, Grolier, and Coop bookstores, New Lecture Hall will also be used for the reading. No radio station will carry it.

The relay system connecting Sanders, Memorial Hall and New Lecture Hall was completed this spring to prevent a reoccurrence of last fall's riot which developed when a large overflow crows was turned away from Arnold Toynbee's lecture in Sanders.

Eliot, commonly considered the foremost living poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. Besides many famous poems, among them "The Waste Land," "The Four Quartets," and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," he has written four plays, "Murder in the Cathedral," "The Family Reunion", "The Cocktail Party," and the more recent "The Confidential Clerk."

In connection with the reading, Houghton Library has arranged a special Eliot display of first editions and manuscripts.

It is understood that the money from Sunday's program will be used to start a fund for a new Advocate building. Tickets for the reading in Sanders were sold out less than two days after they went on sale.