Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern dress. Even if you saw the Dramatic Club's effort last spring, take a chance on this, this is better. A bit overdone, but pleasant...
Harrington, who will play the title role of Hassan the confectioner, is vice-president of the Dramatic Club. He has had parts in "The Orange Comedy" by Gilbert Seldes '14, produced in the fall of 1926, and in the modern version of the "Taming of the Shrew" which was staged last spring. In "The Chisholm Trail" last fall he made a hit in the character of Tom Stevens, the excitable ranchman who furnished the principal comedy relief...
...November 30, Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York World, gave a very enlightening talk on "Some Problems of Modern Journalism." On January 22, W. M. Danner '13, missionary and lecturer, spoke on "Ridding the World of Lenrosy." And on April 2, Professor C. T. Copeland '82, gave one of his readings from the Bible...
History--C. C. Abbott '28, English History, Hollis 4, today from 3.30 to 6.30 o'clock. R. C. Berresford '28. French History, Grays 1, tomorrow evening from 8 to 10 o'clock. A. L. Hawes '28, Modern European History, Weld 18, tomorrow from 2 to 4 o'clock...
...deny that Mr. Skinner was a sly and waggish Falstaff, nor could anyone suggest to Mrs. Fiske that the time had come for her to retire. All in all, their performance was good enough to make it clear that Shakespeare, when played at all, ought to be played in modern clothes and that a little less roguishness and a little more polish would have made this fairly funny comedy far more laughable...