Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Protests as to the action of city officials in closing "Fiesta" the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, were voiced by Miss Gloria Braggiotti, C. C. Leatherbee '29, and others of the players yesterday...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Miss Braggiotti, feature dancer of the show, summed up the attitude of the cast: "I think 'Fiesta' is perfectly all right. It is Mexico. It is the people as they are. Why should nature be changed to suit those bigots whose minds misinterpret natural actions and truthful portraiture as attempts at immorality and the risque...
Died. Alice Mary Longfellow, 78, eldest daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by his second wife Frances Elizabeth Appleton; at the Longfellow family home, "Craigie House," in Cambridge, Mass. Miss Longfellow spent most of her life in the interest of women's education, as a founder and adviser of Radcliffe College ("Harvard Annex"). As a daughter of one of the most famed of Boston "Brahmins" her literary connections were many. She was the last survivor of a dinner party given in 1868 at Boston's old Parker House by Charles Dickens. But her memory will be most sharply recalled...
Three months ago in Paris Miss Del Rio asked her husband if she could come and see him; after that they wrote to each other, the actress finally-"Keep up your courage, darling. I don't forget you in my heart. You must get well. I love you, I love you."-a message (it was the one the sick man did not live to read) suggesting once more the odd fact that all emotions of a certain sort, whether real or assumed, can be expressed only in the language of subtitles...
...many and important listeners, including leading critics. They had marked talent, both of them-but for Brahms' violin concerto, for Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto it was not enough. Nor did the leading critics appear to remember their assigned roles. Said Lawrence Gilman in the Herald Tribune: "Miss Shuchari gave a creditable conservatory performance, flawed by occasional impurity of intonation, poor tone quality, inaccurate double-stopping, and an infelicitous delivery of the finale, which she played awkwardly, timidly, and insecurely. . . . Miss Kerr's pretty and facile playing was swamped in the tides of Rachmaninoff's grandiloquence...