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Word: nights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rehearsals will be held each week, beginning this Thursday night, and the Summer Band will give a concert later in the summer session. Membership is open to all students in the Summer School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band and Chorus Seeking Members | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...little effort on; his treatment of them is decidedly thin. The greatness of the play lies in what Shakespeare himself invented: the dazzing comedy of Beatrice and Benedick, who "never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them"; and the inspired farce of Dogberry, Verges, and the night watch. (When he used Much Ado as the basis of his last opera, Berlioz had no trouble in discerning the gold; and he entitled the result Beatrice and Benedict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Rabb and the players are fortunate to have the absolutely stunning, three-story set, complete with lanterns and garden swing, designed by William D. Roberts. And it takes Gilbert Hemsley's lighting very well, abetted in one night scene by four real flambeaux...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Construction of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center goes on apace in preparation for the gala opening on July 9 of the Cambridge Drama Festival's production of "Twelfth Night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Theatre of Pioneering Design Goes Up for Gala July 9 Opening | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...symmetry, which Romeo and Juliet has in superabundance. An early member of the canon and only the author's second attempt at tragedy, the play is at times literarily self-conscious and structurally too obvious in its symmetrical balance. Every idea has its complement: love vs. hate, day vs. night, patience vs. impetuosity, chastity vs. bawdry, and so on. Every character has its foil: Romeo and Mercutio, Juliet and Roasline, Benvolio and Tybalt, Friar Laurence and the Nurse. If it is not a supreme achievement, it is still a great play; and let us be thankful we have...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Romeo and Juliet | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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