Word: caliban
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although many spikes and cleats have done their obliterative best, the Stadium has not quite lost the touch of a buskined foot. The Joan of Arc of Maude Adams was one of the first plays to be presented here, and "Caliban", the effort of Percy Mackaye to go Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced...
...Caliban of the Pawn Shop", a one act comedy by W.W. Howells '30, of the drama group in English A, has been accepted for the stage by the dramatic committee of Boston Settlement Houses. The play will be produced some time in the near future...
Died. W. L. (Walther Lionel) George, 44, famed English novelist of the "Georgian" school (Caliban, Ursula, Trent, A Bed of Roses, The Story of Woman, etc.), for several years signator with his third wife of a saccharine U. S. syndicated "column" dealing with sex problems; in London, of pneumonia...
Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
...modern Caliban...