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...first tea dance of its kind to be given this year will take place in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6.30 o'clock. Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell and Mrs. Matthew Luce will act as patronesses. Music will be furnished by the University Band of 30 pieces, which has already met with a great deal of success in playing for dances at Brockton and elsewhere...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will resume its public theatricals tonight when it presents its 19th production, the first since the spring of 1917. The performance which is to be given in the Pi Eta Theatre at 8 o'clock consists of two plays, Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus" and Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet." Lord Dunsany, who is at present visiting the country, is planning to make a special trip to Cambridge to see the play on Wednesday evening...
...Fame and the Poet' has never been staged, having but recently been written, and the Dramatic Club has, therefore, the honor of being its first producers. The scene of this sketch is laid in modern London, and the play contains but three characters, Prattle, an empty-headed and matter-of-fact man about town; De Reves, a poet and dreamer; and Fame, an allegorical figure...
Holberg was the founder of Danish literature, and is considered the first writer of his time with the exception of Voltaire. Before his death he had founded a theatre in which his comedies were played. All his plays are of universal interest, as he has travelled and studied conditions in every country. The production of "Erasmus Montanus" by the Dramatic Club tonight marks the first time that any of his plays have been presented in America as far as can be ascertained...
Only a few matches were played off yesterday in the first day of the squash tennis and racquets tournaments. The demand on the courts is already so great that it has been decided to change the length of the matches to three games out of five, instead of four out of seven...