Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MASQUERADE-Ben Ray Redman- Me Bride ($1.50). An interesting young critic who is one of the best translators we have collects his verse. Influence of T. S. Eliot, influence of sonnets, classic and modern, some satire, pleasingly keen, capability, technique, promise, no great originality, a mind that has not quite found itself, a voice a little too fond of the accent of other poetic voices. But still, capability, technique, promise-no more unusual promise than in the case of several others, but indubitably present nevertheless...
Pelleas and Melisande. There are few more distressing duties than to seize by the beard a venerable bit of literature that has acquired the privileged sanctity of a classic. You tug the white whiskers from their moorings- and there stands revealed a fictional figure worn with age but no longer dignified. Such was the lot of Pelleas and Melisande, a fantasy of Maeterlinck's which continued absence from the stage has afforded it an illegitimate repute...
...Holy Cross Athletic Association has presented sideline passes to all this year's football letter men for their game today with Boston College Mr. Campbell has the passes at the R. A. A. and will give them to those who want to see the classic battle between 9 and 11 o'clock this morning...
...students made a very creditable mob of Thebans", said Sir John Martin-Harvey to a CRIMSON reporter on Monday night after the first performance of "Oedipus Rex" at the Boston Opera House. The noted British actor was resting after his first appearance as Oedipus, king of Thebes in this classic tragedy of Sophocles, which was produced for the first time on Monday evening...
...melodrama. People think that there is something learned and scholastic about it. But it's not. It's the sort of play that any one can enjoy. It has rapid action and gripping dramatic interest. And that's why I'm giving this production,--to show that a great classic play can be enjoyed. I don't want just the highly educated to come to this play; I want the great public,--the man in the street. It has its appeal not only to the boxes but to what we call in England the pits and galleries. 'Oedipus...