Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orange Comedy" will be the first production of the Harvard Dramatic Club this season. The play, a modernization by Gilbert Vivian Seldes '14 of an old Italian comedy, offers great opportunity to development by the producers...
...Orange Comedy" was written by Carlo Gozzie and has never before appeared on an American stage. It has been completely revised by Gilbert Seldes, who converted it into an amusing burlesque of modern customs, under the guise of a seventeenth century fairy tale. Prohibition and Puritanism, war and international diplomacy all come in for vigorous comment. Many of the institutions of modern life and all modern eccentricities are presented in broad irony. Present day actors, critics, and audiences; fashions in clothes; movies, and real-estate agents are included...
...Molpe" says Professor Gilbert Murray, "is the fountain-head of poetry in the European world." This ancient form of nature-worship, long antidating in Greece the period known as the Heroic Age, and combining in its expression in singing and dancing the worship of the aesthetic as well as that of the material, is so to speak, the primitive poetry of all European people at least, and as such underlies their later literature...
...play is entirely Miss Kennedy and Sidney Blackmer, and not at all the work of its authors, Princess Troubetzkoy and Gilbert Emery, who seem to have loaned it little except their names. To be sure, there is a professional smoothness about the book of the play, an assurance which borders on insouciance; and the air of boredom with which the authors play on the easily tuned instrument of the public galls even the thick-skinned among Boston playgoers. There is an assumption that the playwrights know what the public swallows alive and buys wholesale, a dangerous assumption...
Professor Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, and first occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, will lecture tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. His subject will be "The Hercic...