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...Fine Arts deals with much more than "the history of the period". Besides reading on historical background, the concentrator in Fine Arts will find that he must study texts on the history of various forms and periods of art as well as critical works varying from Ruskin to Geoffrey Scott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine Arts | 3/24/1933 | See Source »

...patient who thinks he is Shakespeare (Geoffrey Kerr), leader of the Little Theatre movement within the walls, who starts the eminent theatricians on their collaboration. Pirandello, the metaphysician jumps at the notion. If these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony and Octavius, then they must be. And it will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1933 | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Married. Helen Choate, 26, Manhattan poetess, socialite, granddaughter of the late U. S. Ambassador to England Joseph Hodges Choate; and Geoffrey Platt, 27, architect son of Architect Charles Adams Platt; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

TROILUS & CRESSIDA - Geoffrey Chaucer; Englished anew by George Philip Krapp-Random House ($3.50). Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chaucer Polished | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...POEMS OF W. S. GILBERT- Random House ($3.50). RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME-edited by Prentiss N. Gray- Derry dale Press ($10). RIDING REFLECTIONS-Piero Santini- Derrydale Press ($10). THE SILVER HORN-Gordon Grand- Derrydale Press ($7.50). TENNIS ORIGINS & MYSTERIES-Malcolm D. Whitman - Derrydale Press ($10). TROILUS & CRESSIDA-Geoffrey Chaucer -Random House ($3.50). See below. THE WESTERN PONY-William R. Leigh -Huntington Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: GIFT BOOKS | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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