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Though unaccustomed to Columbia's large, Grecian-styled, circular pool, which slows down swimming times, such aqua-stars as 220-man Walt Ballard, diver Bob Aaron, and Chuch Hoelzer in the breaststroke division should keep the Crimson churning out in front for most...
After Radcliffe authorities had ratified a decorous Grecian-style outfit, Shwartz set his designers to work and announced the latest word in Cambridge fashions t a waiting press. The New York Dally News picked up the story and emblazoned it in the place of honor on page three...
Fearing that the scanty raiment would cause raised eyebrows in 'Cliffe bluenose circles, Eve stated that she will appear in a more seemly, if less sightly, Grecian tunic. While some male members of the production claim that the tunic idea would tax the local cloth supply, others still persist that she will actually appear in regulation Gardon of Eden greenery when the curtain rises Tuesday...
...doubtful whether Strauss ever expected Ariadne to be a box-office hit. A small-scaled "chamber opera" without a chorus, it uses an orchestra of only 37 instruments, one of them an organ. A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe. The three leading roles, all sopranos, are among the most difficult to sing in all opera...
...play is neither a translation of the original nor well-done modern theatre. Guthrie McClintic uses a plain but forceful set modeled after a Grecian interior, but dresses every character in 1946 evening clothes: the lines are a strange admixture of sonorous, poetic speeches for the high-born--tragic figures in the Aristotelian sense--and lower-level American slang for the vulgar; Anouilh preserves the Greek hours, but transforms it into a single narrator reminiscent of "Our Town...