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...Greene, whose headquarters will be in Pekin, will have entire charge of the work under the general supervision of the home office in New York City...
...idea of classes out of College getting together informally be it to attend a Yale hockey game or to listen to the returns of the game in Pekin is an excellent one. It keeps the members of the class in intimate contact with each other, and it keeps the class or large sections of it in touch with the University. There need be no artificial "frattiness" about such meetings; but it is surely one of the best vacations a man can have to forget for an evening his business cares and to mingle with his classmates. About Boston there...
...much alive today as it was a thousand years ago. The story of "A Thousand Years Ago" is that of Calaf, Prince of Astrakhan, whose father has been slain by Altoum, Emperor of China. Calaf is supposed to have been drowned but he reappears in the streets of Pekin in disguise and declares his mad love for Turandot, the daughter of the Emperor. And in the same-streets of Pekin appears Capocomico, a vagabond player, a devil-may -care imp of romance. Capocomico agrees to cure the Emperor's daughter of a mysterious illness, provided he be allowed to change...
...play. He refused to revise the old version but set to work to supplement the legend with a romantic plot of his own. This is the version now being presented under the title of "A Thousand Years Ago," which name was adopted after "Turandot" and "The Princess of Pekin" were considered and discarded. The scenery is of the original Reinhardt type...
...Tomorrow," by Percy Mackaye '97, was recently produced at the Little Theatre, Philadelphia, where it received an enthusiastic reception. Mr. Mackaye is now rehearsing a new play which the Shuberts are to produce shortly in New York. This play, "Turandot, Princess of Pekin," is an original fantastic comedy in verse on a theme from the same Arabian Night's tale as the older Gozzi-Schiller "Turandot." It is not a revision or rewriting of that play, as has been stated, but an entirely new piece...