Word: odes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, Annette Vallon was the all-sufficient reason while others have averred that it was Wordsworth's adoption of Tory principles after his disgust with the French Revolution due to the invasion of Switzerland. "The Ecclesiastical Sonnets" are indeed sorry stuff after the "Tintern Abbey," the "Prelude" and the "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." "In fact," as a CRIMSON editor of yore once wrote, "most of Wordsworth's later poems written while he was a stamp-distributor or laureate have to be taken by us moderns with a bromo-seltzer!" This is a just criticism though it be advanced somewhat...
...hoped that Ina Claire, stage and screen star, who is now playing at the Plymouth Theatre in "Ode to Liberty" will be able to act as a patroness with Margaret Marker, of the Group Theatre, and Mildred Natwick, who played in "The Distaff Side." Whitney M. Cook '36, president or the H.D.C. announced that the Freshman club would be continued next year...
Miss Claire, now appearing in "Ode to Liberty," hurried out from Boston as soon as the final curtain fell on her own play at the Plymouth, and was able to see the entire third act of "Sarah Simple." She said that she had been interested in the play herself and considered it the most amusing of Milne's comedies. The Theater Guild's crowded schedule has so far prevented her from appearing in it, but she is still keeping it in mind as a possible future production...
...Ode to Liberty (adapted from Michel Duran by Sidney Howard; Gilbert Miller, producer). The news about Ode to Liberty is that Ina Claire is now wearing her blonde hair piled in curls on top of her head like a charming Billiken. This hair dress and the Claire glamour manage to keep fluttering this airy nothing of a play. It concerns a Parisian lady who has left her overbearing banker husband for a small apartment of her own. There she unexpectedly finds herself playing unwilling hostess to a Communist fugitive (Walter Siezak, ingratiating young hero of Music...
...known to his admirers, has annually read to its members at about this time. But contrary to his usual custom, this year he is announcing beforehand some of the selections which he has chosen. Among them are Browning's "Epistle of Karshish" and "Up at a Vills," Keate' "Ode to a Nightingale," and Tennyson's "Ballad of the Revenge." As Copey intends to read only poetry, he is especially cager that all those who have real interest in that field be present...