Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outrage were some 30 members of the Harvard Band. No encores and fewer huzzas were accorded this unscheduled serenade, while a few of the more energetic Princetonians sought to end it by throwing whatever came to hand--shiny red apples in most cases--at the musicians. Aim was generally poor, however, and casualties incurred were negligible, according to prelimary reports, while a universally unsettling effect on the Orange and Black was observed...
Despite a poor choice in Barrie's gaslight comedy, the production was good. Encased in an excellent set by Paul Morrison, Philip Bourneuf, Ernest Truex, Richard Waring, and Eva Le Gallienne went through the vintage-piece with professional mien. Truex, as Alick Wylie, the old Scotchman, is a funny little man in any accent. Eva Le Gallienne, contrasting the prevailing brogue with a gaudy, if inaccurate, French accent, had most of the good lines and used them all for at least five rounds of applause. June Duprez, as the "woman who always knows" is not as plain a wench...
...Boston Jazz Society, but nowadays the section of the Terrace where the hot men used to play looks like an unfinished pool room, which perhaps it is. The once jumping Ken Club is now indistinguishable from a thousand and one other marginal niteries. Best bet out of a poor field is the Club Savoy near the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues. Here a former Hampton sideman, Earl Bostie, manipulated the keys of his alto in an exceptionally adept but rather confusing manner. The member of his unit, a remarkably happy looking and youthful bunch compared with most jaded jazzmen...
...attempted to tie loose historical ends together with two speeches by a chorus-like character who informs the audience by a homespun Elizabethan intonation of what is happening. And she has aggravated the injury of the famous pre-curtain eulogy to Queen Elizabeth by humorously poor staging...
...original texts of The Irrational Knot, Cashel Byron's Profession and An Unsocial Socialist, all long out of print, are now available in a single volume (omitted: Immaturity and Love among the Artists). As novels they are pretty poor; Shaw himself observed that they were "just readable enough to be intolerable." But the three taken together are Victorian documents, and give a good idea of the audacious, irreverent young Shavian mind...