Word: delta
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Arrangements for the entertainment of the Yale debaters in Cambridge have been completed. The Harvard Chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, the honorary debating fraternity, will entertain the rival teams, the judges, former University debaters, and the members of the Debating Council at a banquet in the Union immediately after the debate...
...long time the Living Room would have to be closed for the workmen, it has been necessary to change somewhat the plan of dramatic performances in the Union as was originally announced. The Union management takes great pleasure in announcing that next Monday, in Brattle Hall, the Delta Upsilon will give a Union performance of their play, "The Comedy of Errors," which Professor Baker reviewed in yesterday's CRIMSON. This performance will be open to Union members only...
...distinguished list of revivals of Elizabethan plays, the Delta Upsilon this year adds Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." The production is ambitious and interesting. For one of the first times in this country a setting is shown such as Munich and other German cities have long used for Shakespearean plays. A dark blue cyclrama drop fills the back of the stage. At front as a kind of inner proscenium, or as replacing the tormentors of former days, are doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain...
...consequent re-arrangement of parts at the last moment probably accounts for acting at this first performance more like that of a dress rehearsal. The verse play, however, brings out even in professionals all covert faults of enunciation and intonation. Indistinctness even among the most experienced in the Delta Upsilon cast was marked. Moreover, time has made stale so many of the lines which originally delighted an audience that the comedy must be played fast, with skillful pointing of the lines and some building up by action to make places weak for a modern audience produce their old effect. There...
...second performance of the Delta Upsilon play will be given in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. There will be dancing directly after the performance. The remaining public performances are as follows: Wednesday evening at Jordan Hall, Boston: Friday evening in the Opera House. Exter, N. H.; and Saturday evening in Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. Tickets for all the performances may be obtained at Herrick's, the Co-operative Branch. Batcholder's Book Store, Exeter, and of W. C. McGiffert, Jr., '18, at 57 Thayer...