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...Radcliffe students. The cast includes: Rosemary McHugh and Isabelle Reynolds as nuns; Asa Phillips '34, W. L. West '32, and M. P. Smith '32 as shepherds; L. A. S. McCabe '34, H. B. Powers '33, and D. A. Dudley '32 as the three kings; H. B. Wesselman '32 as Herod; R. C. Breithut '31 as armor bearer; B. H. Goldsmith and O. V. Wooten !31 as scribes, Edmund Dorfinan, '33 and R. W. Becher '33 as courtiers; P. G. Hoffman '32 as Joseph, Beatrice Grover as Mary; Alice Martin, Barbara Brentnall, and Barbara Shevlin as pages and P. G. Hoffman...
...audience jamming Civic Auditorium sat in rapt attention as they saw her transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan. Her Dance of the Seven Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead...
...famed Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, built by the Louis XIV of Jewry circa 1000 B.C. and today utterly in ruins though the outlines of the Temple remain. Actually Jews wail for the lost glories of their race at a superimposed and much later wall built by detested King Herod. The lower courses of masonry alone are supposed to contain stones originally part of the Temple...
...Probably the wife of Zebedee, mother of the apostles John and James (not the author of the Epistle). Not to be confused with Salome, daughter of Herodias, who danced for Tetrarch Herod and asked for the head of John the Baptist. But Dancer Salome could have witnessed the resurrection, since her famed dance took place only 13 months before...
There will be no cries of outrage on the part of undergraduates in the ears of Mr. Roberts not attempts to out-Herod Herod on the part of the men whose "semi-idiotic obtuseness" he lampoons. The "extra-thick coats of indifference", which he says are a "lot of hooey", will at least protect his victims from the shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such...