Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Romain Rolland, and only recently translated into English by Miss-Helena Van Brugh de Kay, with an introduction by the author for American readers. This introduction is not the least interesting part of the volume. Short as it is, it contains a vigorous, damaging deunuciation of the so-called "classic" ages, with one of which, the reign of Louis XIV, the play itself is concerned. "Epochs of prey", M. Rolland describes them, "a pack of hounds with blind instincts, always straining to escape from the huntsman's leash." The era of Augustus...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-W alter Hampden relighting Mansfield's torch in the classic romance of Edmond Rostand...
Eugene Savage (Ferargil Galleries), decorative young modernist, uses classic themes and medieval methods (gold background), makes his own frames. There is a small copy of his Expulsion (from Eden) which won the Thomas B. Clark Prize at the last National Academy...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden's revival of Rostand's classic comedy. Just about the most satisfactory combination on the current playbill...
Above the swarm of books on Harvard life and Harvard traditions has appeared one predestined to stand as the most authoritive, the richest and the fullest. Only one man is equipped with the experience and information to write such a classic, and that is President Emeritus Eliot. Almost three-quarters of a century of continuous contact with Harvard have fitted him preeminently to collect the traditions and expound the doctrines which have guided Harvard men for a dozen generations...