Word: oed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year of playing the part has also made a proper performance of the drama more difficult", he continued. "If you are familiar with the structure of 'Strange Interlude', you know that O'Neill's characters speak their thoughts in asides, these thoughts coming between speeches of entirely different import. Our difficulty, after playing the parts so long, is that we find ourselves listening to the asides, which, being thoughts, are obviously not meant for us as persons in the play. The result is that, unless we watch ourselves closely, we are in danger of misreading our next lines. When...
...Volpone', in Zweig's version of Ben Jonson's rare bit, run merrily on when the Guild presented it here last spring. I don't see that 'Strange Interlude' is as bad for public consumption as 'Volpone'. Perhaps Ben Jonson's bad taste is classic, while Eugene O'Neill's is--well, the Boston censors have their opinion, it seems...
Miss Helen Howe, daughter of M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, well-known editor and biographer, will entertain listeners this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Her program, under the auspices of the Divisions of Music and Fine Arts will be a recital of monologues, given for the benefit of the MacDowell Colony League of Cambridge. Every year a series of annual presentations is arranged and offered by the citizens of Cambridge, with the aid of the University, for the benefit of the League...
...doubles have reached the quarter final round with the following teams still in the race: Harris Coggeshall 1L, and M. T. Hill ocC., K. D. Daggett '30 and C. Y. Wadsworth '32, F. O. Canfield '32 and A. W. Patterson '32, W. C. Thompson '32 and Frank Broida...
Following the example set by Professor Gilbert Murray when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry in 1926-27, the new professor, Heathcote William Garrod, proposes to hold informal discussion groups for his students in his rooms, 37 Grays Hall, on Thursday afternoons at 5 o'clock, beginning Thursday, October...