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...story of Turandot comes from the same shop as Prokofiev's delightful The Love for Three Oranges, but it is a far less juicy piece of fruit. Puccini's librettists, like Prokofiev, took their story from an 18th Century "fable," i.e., play, of Count Carlo Gozzi, who in turn had been inspired by a Chinese-Persian legend about a beautiful but petulant princess of ancient Cathay. The princess announces she will marry any man of noble blood who can answer three riddles; if he misses an answer, he loses his head...
Yesterday afternoon in the New Indoor Athletic Building the Juniors defeated the Seniors in the first basketball game in the inter-class league for the season of 1931. The score was 21 to 17. Teams were as follows: Juniors: Hagopian, l.f.; Hurvich, r.f.; Turner, c.; Mahoney, l.g.; Gozzi, r.g., Seniors: Jacobson, r.f.; Hislop, l.f.; Snelling, c.; Marcus, r.g.; Lowenburg, l.g., Substitutes: A. J. Bates '32, R. A. Biggs '32, A. J. Donnelly '32, J. M. Hunter '31, F. C. Ober...
...happy hearts of the better Bostonians to that sudden descent of the curtain which ends the show there in no time when anyone dares to remember that he paid so and so for his ticket. Perhaps Mr. Leo Bulgakov of the Moscow Art Theatre is doing better justice to Gozzi at the Provincetown than could ever be done on the shores of Brattle, but Stark Young would have to admit that this is an improvement over "Brown of Harvard"-with all due justice to the mauve menagerie...
...Harlequin, Harry Bingham reaches heights seldom attained by man. To be Thespian, he positively soars. For it is not everyone who can see through the mazes of the commedia dell' arte into the truth at which Gozzi is driving: that comedy is buffoonery, that buffoonery is life...
...Orange Comedy," is an adaptation of Gozzi's play, upon the satirical fairy story plot of which, Gilbert Seldes has imposed all manner of modernism's making it amusing parody of present-day life a sort of "Begger on Horseback" in an antique framework...