Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its reading yesterday afternoon of "The Devil's Art," a new play by Alan Friedman '49, the Harvard Dramatic Club revived the valuable practice of giving student playwrights a chance to see their work on a stage. Productions of student plays were conducted on a grand scale by the famous 47 Workshop under Professor Baker, but have been non-existent in the two decades since he was refused a theatre by President Lowell's administration and went off to Yale. There he established a great drama school with one of Harkness' millions which Lowell had turned down, while Harvard...
...which the Metropolitan Opera chose to open its 62nd season. No one could deny that, from a social point of view, Lakmé was practically ideal: it didn't matter too much if latecomers missed the first act, or spent the last act in the bar on the Grand Tier floor-the real attraction was the second-act "Bell Song," a coloratura showpiece and practically Pons's theme song. Lakmé itself is a kind of earlier Madama Butterfly-involving the love of an Indian priest's daughter for an officer in the British Army...
Westward Ho. Thus encouraged, the brothers branched out: to St. Paul (the Pioneer Press and Dispatch), to Duluth (the News-Tribune and Herald), the Dakotas (Aberdeen and Grand Forks) and the West Coast. They own 49% of the prosperous Seattle Times, and for one year ran the San Francisco Chronicle...
Died. Daniel Florence ("Judge Dan") Cohalan, 79, Tammany Hall's longtime political strategist and onetime Grand Sachem, chief adviser to Bosses Charles F. Murphy and John F. Curry in the heyday of brass-spittoon politics, noisy spokesman of New York City's Irish, former Justice of the State Supreme Court (1911-24); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...surprising energy and determination of Boris Goldovsky brought to Boston last week a new musical idea which may fill one of the city's most acute artistic acute artistic vacuums. Boston, like every other city in the United States but New York, has no worth-while grand opera of its own and is forced to depend on annual visits by the Metropolitan for whatever operatic experience it gets. If Goldovsky's latest project is carried on and improved, however, from last week's excellent starting point, this sorry tradition should evaporate quickly...