Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next most popular department according to the figures released by Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, is Economics, which has 138 prospective clients. This maintains the present ratio of 644 concentrators in Government to 630 in Economics...
There are many reasons way Munch is such a popular leader. First of all he is one of those few conductors doing their best to destroy the image of the "super-man maestro." When he conducts, he is working with an orchestra, he does not stand on a pedestal and dictate to it. He never plays favorites among the players, as many of his colleagues are accused of doing. A tyrant conductor usually develops a clique of musicians who will support him, and help him keep control, but Munch never needs such a clique. One of the violinists...
...Trial by Jury" is the final number on the program, which opens with "The Safe-Crackers," a musical sketch being presented for the first time outside of Chicago. It explodes the popular theory that crime does not pay and is produced by Gerald H. Fisher...
...together were confidence in its leaders, critical praise received by its principal actors, and the encouraging results of a poll which had just been raken to find the College's preference in drama. From the ballots handed out in the dining halls, the VTW had learned that the most popular playwrights were Shakespeare, Shaw, and Noel Coward--a winning combination which might have come as a surprise to any but the last two named. A Shakespearean play would have been too expensive for the indebted Workshop, so Shaw's "Saint Joan" was selected for their second production in the spring...
...expenses or made a profit. Under its new and more accurate name, the Harvard Theater Workshop presented in 1947-8 "Henry IV, Part One" and "Richard II." "Henry IV" was the first play in which the group used recorded music to great effect. This was unquestionably the most popular production of the HTW, and one which brought it praise and attention, not only from the critics, but from leading figures of the academic and the theatrical worlds as well...