Word: bacchanalia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foolish. First act was in a murky tavern where Nero, in disguise, fights a gladiator and ensnares a trembling slave girl who sings duets with him after she has become accustomed to the splendors of Palatine Hill. When the people revolt Nero is still in a dream, staging wild bacchanalia or strumming on his lyre. When he stabs himself he gasps his own epitaph: ''What a great artist dies...
...comedy therein presented is to cause sagacious wink, but the Boston and Cambridge public have frequently found occasion to look upon the product with wide-eyed horror. The present irritation was caused by a drawing in the last issue depicting the now famous scrub women engaged in staging a Bacchanalia on the proceeds of the bonus supplied by Corliss Lamont and his associates...