Word: enlivens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Lytell gives a savory performance as the ham and Evelyn Varden is comic as the fat directrix of the players who rehearses to the refrain of "Nuts in May, nuts in May!" a dance intended to enliven one of the morbid dramas of Chekhov. But as a whole this supposedly sparkling little vehicle by the author of the 1934 comedy hit Personal Appearance gives off about as much electricity as a horse...
Classicists Cairns, Tate and Van Doren earnestly tried to enliven their performance with modern applications of the classics. Quite without sparkle, their program plodded at a pedestrian classroom pace. Nonetheless, to the amazement of one & all, by last week it had attained an estimated audience of 1,000,000. Half a dozen publishers began to sell cheap editions of the classics hand over fist, 4,000 libraries found the books in such demand that they dug them out of dusty stacks, put them on special shelves...
Among the veterans who join and enliven every Harvard Club celebration, come wind, come weather, were James H. McIntosh '84, Gerrish Newell '96, William M. Kendall '76, James Byrne '77, and Mitchell D. Follansbee '92. McIntosh is the oldest living ex-president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and Kendall and Byrne were the oldest alumni who registered yesterday. Newell, brother of the famous athlete, Marshall "Ma" Newell '95, after whom Newell boathouse was named, has long been the motivating force of the New Jersey Harvard Club. Follansbee, who has attended "all but two or three" of the 43 Harvard Club...