Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against this metalic and mechanical cacophony of American noise, stands the surprising loveliness of some of the scenes between Tom and Jane. If he has not yet the theatrical skill and wit of Lawson, Dos Passos, the author of "Three Soldiers," perhaps the most important American contribution to the literature of the Great War, shows a similar courage in his social satire, in his ironic juxtaposition of social conditions in the suffering of these central characters and the raucous shouts of the prosperity boosters, on the gong of the moon
...dinner of the CRIMSON this evening, is Henry Childs Merwin '74, the oldest living former editor of the CRIMSON, and a member of the original board of the Magenta, which first appeared in January, 1873. Mr. Merwin has had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer and author. For 21 years he was Legislative Counsel for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Two of the best known books which he has had published are "The Life of Aaron Burr" and "The Life of Bret Harte". He has also written numerous articles for the Atlantic Monthly, the Century, and other magazines...
...Moon is a Gong", announced by the Harvard Dramatic Club for its spring production, conforms to the dramatic rules set down by its author, Mr. John Dos Passos, in a recent number of Vanity Fair, we may be sure that the play is of questionable merit. The essay to which I refer is in substance an attack upon the "literary" drama. "We may as well admit," the author begins, "that for our time there are no questions of aesthetics...
...same pattern as "Processional", with characters reduced to readily comprehensible types, conducting their impossible business to the strains of a the less jazz band, we may rest assured that the play chosen by the Dramatic Club is a slip shed evasion of the method which its author confesses himself incompetent to handle...
Three Doors. An ill-fashioned farce wandered into an out-of-the-way uptown theatre and stumbled through a dismal two hours. Mystery and satire were the aims of the author, Edward E. Rose; his understanding of either seemed negligible. Assisting in the general depression was a generally inadequate band of actors. The sole novelty was the introduction of many of the characters from the auditorium. This trick has been done seven or eight times before...