Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Foster and Mr. Glendenning perform this very light comedy with a very light, expert touch. A Widow in Green, however, is not what Critic John Mason Brown would call an adventure in theatre-going...
...Green, with its brilliant McCall-Morton combination, should be favored among native onlookers who have watched the Indian team perform against Harvard and other Eastern rivals. Stanford, with two defeats by Southern California and California smirching its record, nevertheless boasts of a powerful attack which should put the two opponents on an even basis in case of wet conditions. Unfortunately for the visiting Westerners the Big Green aggregation is at the peak of its form; two weeks ago it laid low an undefeated Cornell team, and previous to that showed great strength against Harvard and Yale...
There is always something futile in seeing a magician perform on the screen. The audience knows it must be trick photography and wistfully thinks how it would like to see a woman's head cut off by a real conjurer. Thus, the introduction of an atmosphere of mystery by the medium of a sorcerer's performance lacks effectiveness. Grim closeups, however, may be had in profusion and the speaker's lines are often more effective over a machine of pre-determined volume than when spoken on a stage. These, at least, are compensating factors...
Last week, though they had not yet heard from Senator Costigan, the Zoo officials announced they were considering three courses: They could move loud Crane Anson to a special pen further away from the apartment house; perform tonsilectomy on all the cranes; put all the cranes in the giraffe pen, move the giraffes, which, unable to make any sound with their mouths, sometimes have an unpleasant smell, nearer to Senator Costigan...
...Society of the Friends of Music. Fortnight ago people perfunctorily approved a memorial concert to Mrs. Lanier in which Conductor Artur Bodanzky presented the Actus Tragicus, Bach's mourning cantata. But last week musical people were startled. Unless another patron is found, the Friends will be able to perform no more of the great, rare music for which they are famed...