Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical entertainments, beginning with the ceremonious "Burial of Dull Care," ending with the "High Jinks" a musical play composed, staged, sung by members. Though the "High Jinks" are the climax of the festival, many members consider the "Burial of Dull Care" the most impressively beautiful ceremony. While the moon splashes ghostly shadows through the grove, a funeral procession moves under redwood branches huge as an oaktree's bole, carrying along the effigy of "Dull Care," playing slow music. Hidden voices chant from the shadowy hillsides. The procession halts before the sacrificial "Altar of the Owl," solemnly buries the effigy...
...annual play, The Legend of Hani, based on an Indian myth, was written by Playwright Julius Cravens, set to music by Henry Hadley, onetime conductor of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. It relates the efforts of the first man, Hani, after creation of the world by the Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, to subdue the other creatures of earth and find Tala, his predestined mate...
Although the Players were organized just ten years ago by Bushnell Cheney, '21, Yale, Harvard men have played a prominent part in their productions. Richard S. Aldrich '25, who with Alfred deLiagre scored a hit on Brosdway this year with "Three-Cornered Moon," was a member of the group while as undergraduate. Randall C. Burwell '24, of Boston, and J. J. Collier '24, and Richard H. L. Skinner '22, were all actors during the early years. In spite of warnings of critcs Bushnell Cheney started out with a Ford truck with a converted chasis which served as the stage...
...Vegabond feels as if he were walking on tiptoe. In the gray winter twilight there is the ring of steel on ice and urchins skating, and when the plain of the river is windy in March, and the white birches look naked in the light of the riding moon, the Vagabond walks and thinks in inscrutable things. He may even break into a run if the night is cool and laugh when the wind snatches his hair and makes his throat...
...against one of the most stubborn groups of "open shop" employers in a stubbornly "open shop" State. At Reading thousands of hosiery strikers peacefully closed half the city's mills. In Philadelphia 2,000 strikers stormed the Walburton Hosiery plant. Near Bristol the Blue Moon Silk Hosiery Co. was having similar labor troubles. In the face of these demonstrations a majority of the mill operators offered their employes a 25% wage increase but flatly refused to adopt a "closed shop" policy...