Word: comstocking
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...delays brought about by the difficulties in casting (President Comstock's decree, etc.) the original opening of the play, its first debut in this country, by the way, has been postponed until tonight. Those who are unable to be present tonight may still witness Dents Johnson's comedy at performances to be given tomrrow and Friday evenings...
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...
...Reformer Anthony Comstock...
...SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE- George D. Lyman - Scribner ($3.50). Written in a tiresomely slapdash manner, but a mine of information about the bonanza days at Virginia City...
...nature is obvious: for the play is based upon ideas taken from several Greek myths, those concerning the Argonauts' adventures and the life of Persephone. Thus it is mainly a modern symbolic expression of age-firm Greek ideas analogous to those contained in the "Medea" of Euripides. President Comstock's objection passes over the expression and concerns the characters themselves, so that it must rest ultimately upon the Greek sources of the play...