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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With this authority the Dramatic Club started rehearsals of "Success" last night, under the direction of E. P. Goodnow '17, who has been selected as coach for the production. R. R. Wallstein '32, who appeared in both the Club's presentations last season, Michael Gold's "Fiesta", and an original comedy, "Close-Up", will have the leading masculine role in "Success", that of the "Right Honorable R. Selby Mannock...
Jessica Hill, vice-president of the Radcliffe Idlers, will play the featured feminine role, that of "Sally, Lady Carchester". The remainder of the cast has not been definitely selected, it was announced last night, but a complete list of players will be made public sometime during the week...
...small hours this week may see the most important, if not the most spectacular, meteoric display of 30 years, according to Dr. W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory. The long missing Leonids, one of the most brilliant of meteor showers, should begin to be visible tomorrow night, between the hours of midnight and dawn...
This vast stream of meteors, which requires '33 years to make one trip around the sun, should be visible at its fullest in 1932. If the earth is to see them three years hence, beginning tomorrow night a few of the meteors should be visible. The stream is so rich that it takes several years to pass a fixed point, and if the old schedule is restored the earth center of the stream should come along...
...Rigoletto" was the opera chosen for the opening night. The settings were conventional, a trifle simplified; the costumes constrastingly brilliant. But the manner in which the opera was sung and acted make the strongest impression of the evening: from the lighthearted courtly dance as the curtain rose, to the tragic closing duet of Gilda and Rigoletto, Mr. Franchetti conducted a group of singers that understood not only the musical but the dramatic possibilities of the work. Joseph Royer as Rigoletto, after passing easily through the opening scene, played his role with tremendous power. Mr. Onofrel was appealing as the Duke...