Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stupid people that only that which is solemn may be profound and that to seem satirical is to be unsympathetic. Partly for this reason, Serena Blandish will doubtless be misappreciated and en joyed by the well-decorated people who will go to see it. Its inadequacy as a play, however, is not caused by a fallacy in attitude...
...perfections are not marred but diminished, because a play must do more than suggest, however perfectly, a mood, and because an epigram in several scenes is certainly too long. An anonymous "Lady of Quality" wrote the novel Serena Blandish; or The Difficulty of Getting Married...
...Behrman (The Second Man) wrote the play. Jed Harris, the ill-shaven producer whose perhaps somewhat mercenary pride recently forbade him to present Ina Claire in The Gaoler's Wench, was inclined to think well of Serena. He ordered Robert Edmond Jones to design some sets and procured Ruth Gordon with her soft, broken voice and her abruptly delicate gestures to play the part of a lady who "possessed every imaginable charm of appearance and behavior...
...would have loved even if he had not liked her a bit. He invited her to go unconventionally with him to Monte Carlo, to start a night club. In stead of becoming the consort of a Negro, as she was made to do in the book, Serena of the play runs downstairs on her way to a golden and most likely disastrous adventure, still happily, if perilously, unmarried...
...students are progressing in this tournament which is now approaching the fourth round. Ingraham will men Nelson, Hooe of Newton Center in third round match today. Thane will oppose L. W. Wheeler, Jr. of the Union Boat Club. Breckinridge an A. M. Sonnabend '17 of the Harvard Club will play before Monday and the winner of this match is bracketed in play. T. E. Jansen '26, seeded third the tournament. Myers will meet E. Sawyer of the Harvard Club to decide the fourth round entrant