Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northwest Coast, with Japan straight across the Pacific, awareness of war's imminence was at peak. People took its coming for granted. Goat-bearded young Roman Catholic Bishop Gerald Shaughnessy of Seattle preached loudly against U. S. participation. A British Consul and the journalist dean at Washington State University argued hotly, their nerves on edge, as to who should "shut up," Britain or the U. S. The man-in-the-street's preoccupation was: will the draft...
...most people, Greek and Roman drama is something laid away in mothballs. Yet when, with modern tailoring, it is taken out and worn, most people admire it. When Broadway roared last season at Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, it was really patting some forgotten Greek dramatist on the back for his Amphitryon 1. When Broadway flocked to O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, it was saluting Aeschylus' Oresteia with a Down-East accent. And given practically straight, Aristophanes' lewd, witty Lysistrata proved a Broadway...
...volume monumental for scholarship, yet easy to read and superbly illustrated,* German-born, Nazi-banned Dr. Margarete Bieber (now of Columbia University) has told in full the story of the Greek and Roman theatre-its drama, stagecraft, architecture, acting. Besides treating of obscure and controversial points chiefly interesting to archeologists, her book resurrects many a curious and picturesque fact...
...First Roman actors were slaves, who were flogged if they proved to be hams...
...swanky Roman funeral (such as Julius Caesar's) excerpts from tragedies were performed...