Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Composer Deems Taylor confirmed the rumor (TIME, Feb. 25) that his new, Metropolitan-commissioned opera would be based on Street Scene, a play by Elmer Rice, now successful on Broadway. Street Scene is about tenement life...
Hemenway Gymnasium will be the scene on Friday and Saturday of this week of the Annual New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament which was held last year at Tufts College in Medford. For four consecutive years Harvard has won the title which will be at stake, but Tufts and Brown rule as close contenders to take the championship from the Crimson. M. I. T. and Williams are the other institutions entered in the competition...
...Hound and Horn has of late been on the lookout for material for its pages from the pens of Harvard undergraduates and its efforts in this respect achieve notable success in the current issue. Of course it has no competition on the Cambridge scene and undergraduates seldom achieve the more established reviews, but, even so, to publish a poem as distinguished as Mr. J. R. Agee's "Anne Garner" is a rare bit of luck. It is inconceivable that any editor in his right mind should reject...
...Founding of Pragmatism" is a brief but interesting article, interesting that is to logicians and metaphysicians and also to students of the college scene. In 1859 at Harvard undergraduates formed clubs for the discussion of philosophy. How times have changed...
...state banks of Naples wired to Rome, asking that fifty million lira ($2,500,000) be rushed south at once. Throngs of Neapolitans danced and cavorted through the streets, shrieking, delirious with joy. When the cash began to arrive in vanloads, each of the 150 banks became a scene of pandemonium. Once again...