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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saint Joan" paid the old debt and the Workshop's four productions since, all Shakesperean, have either met expenses or made a profit. Under its new and more accurate name, the Harvard Theater Workshop presented in 1947-8 "Henry IV, Part One" and "Richard II." "Henry IV" was the first play in which the group used recorded music to great effect. This was unquestionably the most popular production of the HTW, and one which brought it praise and attention, not only from the critics, but from leading figures of the academic and the theatrical worlds as well...
University geographers were unanimous yesterday in approving the new move. One, declining to be quoted by name said: "This is an indication that the administration is sorry that it closed out geography and is making a sincere effort to bring the field...
According to the proposal, this power would be"...in addition to the approval (or disapproval) of the appropriate Deans," but it was not explained how this plan squared with the present faculty rule requiring organizations using the name Harvard to be composed 100 percent of Harvard...
Only the day before, in an oldfashioned, gaudily wallpapered room in one of Madrid's shabbier neighborhoods, a soberly attentive Lepe had attended a reunion of 16 members of the Altoguirre and Jaudenes families (his real name is Alvarez Jaudenes). They had come from all over Spain, to claim title not to a castle in Spain, but to a castle in America. All were armed with "proof" that they were descendants of an 18th Century Spanish diplomat and his English wife who left a U.S. fortune estimated at $300 million-part of which included the land on which...
...story moves rapidly, by short scenes; the scenes rapidly, by short speeches; the speeches are introduced, as in a play, by the name of the character, followed by a word or two indicating his manner. Explanatory passages are short. Such methods will annoy some readers, who will feel that they are not getting a book, but only the outline of one. In a sense, they will be right. The style of Jean Barois is only the skeleton of the method Martin du Gard fleshed out in The Thibaults, but it is made of good solid bones...