Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rent this fine car! And drive it yourself". To many a steering wheel in the hand and a foot on the clutch are synonymous with "Drivurself". In Fords, Chryslers, Buicks and Hudson Broughams Harvard men, in increasing numbers, drive forth daily and nightly for business and pleasure. Around them classic myths have begun to circulate...
Haggerty and O'Neil will face the starter in the classic 1000 yard run Haggerty, intercollegiate mile champion for the past two years will make his season's debut in the distance events. O'Neil scintillated as a Freshman...
...Wilde's necrophilistic version, U. S. presentations were banned for some time after the first Metropolitan hearing in Manhattan. But victrola records were allowed to popularize the "Dance of the Seven Veils"- and in Europe the opera at once took front rank. Followed Elektra, whose unpleasant theme, being classic, caused less offense; then Der Rosencavalier, an entirely new departure in its Rabelaisian farce of both libretto and score (the libretto had to be cut for virtuous Manhattan). Der Rosencavalier, with its infectious burlesque, wit and sparkle, stays his best liked opera, perhaps his best to date...
...evening's brightest spot is the song and dance concerning the days "When Gentlemen Wore Whiskers and Ladies Grew Old." The men with beard-swathed faces, the girls with wasp waists and bustles, do a burlesque which is positively classic. It alone would be worth the price of admission and the sacrifice of an evening's time, even if "Judy" were no good. Fortunately, however, because of its refreshing informality and its speed, "Judy" is good...
With all of its mannered excellence the play is not satisfying, no more satisfying than Madame Sorel herself. She has been presented with a modern play, a play in which the action deserts the wings on several occasions for the very stage itself; a circumstance quite out of the classical French tradition. An invasion of her castle grounds by a mob and the epilogue wherein she is guillotined furnish her with the harshest of realities. And Madame Sorel treats them with that same graceful, classic restraint which leaves them empty of matter however admirable the form. Give her an abstraction...