Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Ada Louise Comstock,* president of Radcliffe College, read the script of A Bride for the Unicorn, spring production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, she decided the play "unsuitable for young college girls," ordered eleven Radcliffe students to quit the cast during rehearsal...
Virgil Thomson, composer of the rhythmic pattern score of "A Bride for the Unicorn" the Harvard Dramatic Club production, arrived in Cambridge yesterday to take personal charge of the chorus and orchestra for the production. Thomson's big work has been the composition of the musical score for Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts." The score, dedicated to the Harvard Dramatic Club...
Dedham, Mass., April 22--Murton Millen, on trial for his life, was reunited with his attractive 19-year-old bride, Norma, in Dedham jail today for the first time since his arrest in New York nearly two months...
...announcement last night by Producer Joe Losey and President John C. Haggott '35, of the Dramatic Club that Miss Margaret Lang, of Boston, had been selected to play the part of the Girl With the Mask, in the club's annual production, "A Bride for the Unicorn," brought the problem of picking the female cast one step nearer solution...
Hence the prohibition on Radcliffe participating in "A Bride for the Unicorn" is very nearly parallel to a prohibition on college girls acting in one of the great tragedies; yet Vassar gives Greek plays regularly. A still closer parallel can be found in "Mourning Becomes Electra," with the extremely important distinction that while this is handled realistically, Johnston's play is symbolic. Thus it would be more absurd for Harvard Dramatic Club advisers to ban the latter than O'Neill's play...