Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan Opera is back in town, and Harvard men are again signing for walk-on parts at $1 a night. Each evening about 20 students don tights and helmets, push onto a crowded stage, and burble background noises. The Crimson sent a reporter to the scene for an eyewitness report of their activities...
Last Saturday night, on the stage of the Boston Opera House, I carried a spear in Aida--a spear with a big red tassel at the end. My roommate wore a wig and looked like a cocker spaniel...
...triumphal march I walked right up to the center of the stage. The Christian Science Monitor said this scene was the best part of the opera, and added, "The always amazing business of deploying the throng without confusion was managed with the usual skill...
...walked into the Opera House through the stage door at 7 p.m., looking haughty. Inside, we were met by a high priest of Thebes, who said his name was Senkahamen and went to Belmont High School. He led us up six flights of stairs to a hot room where boys were getting dressed and undressed...
...downstairs and wandered over the stage, watching the scantily-clad priestesses, the scantily-clad dancers, and the electricians. Then a man in a tuxedo shooed us away and the curtain went up. There was so much noise backstage that we couldn't hear the audience coughing, much less the opera...