Word: actes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lovely Lady", the latest Mitzi vehicle to reach Boston where it now graces the boards of the Wilbur Theatre, is a typically hot-house musical comedy product. The first act has as its locale the screen room of the "Royale Hotel" on the Island of Caprice off the Coast of France; the second act is for the most part confined to a boudoir of the same hotel. The motivation of the plot is provided by the refusal of an arbitrary young heiress to marry the foolish Lord Islington. To escape the marriage she persuades the young Prince Paul De Morlaix...
...Monday and Tuesday at Agassiz Theatre, the Menorah Societies of Harvard and Radcliffe will present "Disraeli", a four-act play by L. N. Parker...
...first production of the dramatic group of the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies was given four years ago under the leadership of L. H. Weinstein 3L, now President of the Harvard society who has the leading role in this year's presentation. Each year since, three one act plays have been produced by the combined group and this year for the first time a single long play will be given...
...thereof. The trouble, The trouble, of course, has been the difficulty of altering the terms of a trust under English law. It is very likely that Rhodes himself wished the Trustees to have complete latitude to make such changes but the Will was so worded as to necessitate an act of Parliament. Again, you imply that heretofore the officials have disapproved of men who stayed only two years. While this has been a common view in this country and has perhaps been held by selection committees, it has never, I believe, been that of the Trustees and the present pronouncement...
...years older than Hero Lindbergh. Weill, a pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly not "listen...