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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burbank '29 will provide musical entertainment with a performance upon the xylophone, and it is expected that K. A. Perry '28 will render one of his popular offerings in ventriloquism Light refreshments will be served after the entertainment...
...Popular Medley arr by Rice...
...football team, are the principal speakers of the evening. They will be introduced by Harper. Motion pictures of last fall's Harvard-Yale and Harvard-Indiana football games will be shown after the addresses, while K. A. Perry '28 will do the act which was so popular on the musical club tour this winter. Roy Lamson '29 and his Harvardians will play at intervals throughout the evening. The double quartet of the musical clubs will complete the program. There will be favors this year as well as the usual smokes and refreshments...
...active organization, has been outdoing itself this year. This Sunday evening programs are attracting large audience, and the recent decision to admit ladies to them may mean an increase in the attendance. The Debating Union finds an interested group of student twice a month; mid-week concerts are popular; the Union continues to be the logical place for class smokers, Copeland reading, and luncheons to distinguished guests...
...believe that by casting 'The Taming of the Shrew' in modern dress, a fresh interest in Shakespeare can be given. This play is now in popular disfavor, although of course in the days of Ellen Terry the people thought it among the best of Shakespearean dramas. By putting an Italian gentleman, Petruccio, in a cowboy outfit and by introducing a modern touch to the lines, the audiences seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage...