Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorities acted otherwise, the prevalent opinion was that Harvard had a legitimate place as one of the leaders in that movement. With this present burst of interest in things dramatic it is becoming clear that that opinion was well founded. Commendable in themselves, these new activities and events will perform the greatest of services only if they convince those in power that there is a real liberal interest in dramatic literature and presentation, and that the omission of the old courses in such technique and study in the catalogue for next year should never again occur...
...such drew a perfect picture. Objectors swear that there was a deeper thrust of idealistic sincerity to the part as Ibsen wrote it. If this is your reading of the play, Mr. Gamble was exceedingly inept. Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers and a newcomer named Helen Chandler are three perform ers that fully merit the oft misused word "scintillating." Such a combination of ideas and interpretation is indeed rare in the playgoer's experience...
...chief novelty of this year's schedule lies in the Northampton performance. Harvard dramatists have seldom endeavored to perform before audiences at women's colleges. The trip of this year's Pi Eta Show, "Peter Called Prince", to Wellesley, broke a policy of 25 years' standing. The decision of the Hasty Pudding management to visit Smith marks a similar departure from custom...
More than half a century ago, a Manhattan rector refused to perform in his church Lie burial service of an actor who had been greatly loved by his fellow stage-folk. He suggested, however, that there was a little church around the corner which might...
...sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks. The dream of mature planning of his education must perish. He must still be the boy with punitive tasks to perform, and "divisionals" keep dividing him against himself. Thus conscience, someone has said, doth make cowards of us all: but the Senior is not altogether blameworthy. Conscience begins to mean nothing else than an institution in this case the institution of "divisionals...