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...above classical simile is not quite an accurate description of the Club, since it has functioned quietly and efficiently since the brighter times in 1936 when it presented the "Mostellaria" of Plautus, also in the original tongue, to cheering crowds at the Tercentenary of which this was an official part...
...made a collection of ten double-faced phonograph records, illustrating selections from the finest passages of Latin prose and poetry. Each record will be accompanied by a pamphlet giving the Latin text and idiomatic translation. The price will be $2.50 each. The passages are chosen from Plautus, Lucrotius, Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Pliny, Juvonal, and Tacitus...
...work, composed in the modern manner, was written for the Classical Club's interpretation of Plautus' "Mostellaria," with text from Ovid's "Fasti." The play was never performed and so Carter's piece remained unknown and unsung until it was rediscovered by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor of the Glee Club...
...Farnsworth Room awhile, stops at the shelves that hold the priceless Arden Shakespeare and picks out "The Comedy of Errors". (His tutor played Antipholus of Ephesus in an amateur production of it once.) The Vagabond noses through half of the "Comedy" and compares it with the Elizabethan translation of Plautus's "Menochmi" (or "The Two Menechmuses' as some Elizabethans called it) which Shakespeare used in his play. The "Menochmi" is reprinted in Appendix B of the Arden edition. The Vagabond, if he had the money, would buy the Arden Shakespeare, every volume of it. If for no other reason that...
...last performance of the "Mostellaria" of Plautus, the Tercentenary Latin play, will be given by the Harvard Classical Club in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8.30 o'clock...