Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerts in Symphony Hall are decided on, while two other performances are not yet definitely dated. These are the Bloch Symphony, to be given some time during the winter, and the Chorus from the last act of Parsival some time during the spring...
...Would-Be Gentleman is an excessively poor translation of Moliere's title Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; the rest of the modernized adaptation with which Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre opened its season was not so strikingly bad but it somehow made the old farce act its age. Only the scene wherein M. Jourdain superintends ironic and Turkish nuptials is as funny as the arty members of the audience thought the rest...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
...Incidentally she wore greenish blue in the first act and white and vermilion in the second...
Harvard and West Point have met 13 times on the gridiron but in each case the meeting has taken place on the Plains at West Point, and this is the first occasion on which the Harvard undergraduate body has had an opportunity to act as host...