Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love. If the prevalence of a dramatic theme is any indication of the mores of the general public, then the U. S. must be full of married couples who are trying to decide whether occasional infidelities, particularly the husband's, affect what they refer to as their love. George Abbot and S. K. Lauren have written a suburban drama, in which the former appears, about a novelist who goes to a hotel with a discontented matron Awhile his wife is out of town. He is duly repentant and places no great significance on his sexual tangent. The wife is rather...
Because it suggests how completely disagreeable the results of man's illicit motions toward pleasure are apt to be, this play is more persuasive than the outline would indicate. George Abbot presents an effortless, natural portrait of the casual Westchester man-of-letters. Edwin Phillips, as the son, is that great dramatic rarity ?an accomplished, likeable adolescent...
...production committee is as follows stage manager, R. J. Strauss '32; program manager, J. L. Abbot '31; property manager, Leopold Beckwith '32; production manager, D. A. Nathans '30; assistant production manager, H. C. Freedman...
...frequent substitutions made, but the Freshmen nevertheless continued to outclass their opponents, who scored but 10 points. Of the ten Reserve players used, only four were able to score from the floor HARVARD '33 U.S.N. RESERVE Kimbrough, Mindlin, Renshaw, l.f. r.f., C. Dame, Stdell Schroeder, Matursevitch, Johnson, r.f. l.f., Abbot, White Davidson, Upton, White, Glavin...
...summoned to appear before onetime Emperor Hsuan T'ung in the Yang Hsin Palace of the Forbidden City. There he was presented with delicate, imperial porcelains and dubbed "Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," traditional title bestowed by the Manchu Emperors on their favorite actors. He was also allowed to retain the title "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" which is derived from the fact that during the T'ang Dynasty court actors called themselves "Disciples of the Pear Orchard" because they performed in a palace bordered with pear trees. Few would deny any title, however lofty...