Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar names are absent from the list of members for next season: Florence Easton, soprano, has asked for a year's rest; Titta Ruffo, baritone, has gone into the "talkies"; Feodor Chaliapin will not return until season after next; Marion Talley is retiring" to a farm...
Last week, a certain Bela Blau of Manhattan announced the formation of a theatrical corporation, temporarily called Bela Blau, Inc., which is substantial financially and in personnel. Next season the deliberate production of two or three plays is contemplated. If they are successful, a subscription system will be instituted. Out of a projected capitalization of $150,000, more than $100,000 has been raised. Plays are being read, actors interviewed...
Louis audiences been notoriously sparse and cool. During the 1927 Christmas season, one of the two legitimate theatres in St. Louis harbored Abie's Irish Rose. The other one was empty. But this summer St. Louis feet will tap to the rollicking rhythms of several syncopated operettas, including Rainbow, Funny Face, The Five O'Clock Girl, Sally, Peggy Ann, Tell Me More, Here's Howe. These diversions, all but two of them new to St. Louis, will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more...
Despite the optimistic view taken by those in command of Harvard debating, an analysis of the past forensic season would not seem to justify such an adjective as "healthy". While debating officials paint a radiant future for Harvard debating, the drab record of this year fore-shadows no such promise. On the contrary, the evidence on this season's calendar points in a series of incidents which reflect little credit upon an activity so rich in tradition as Harvard debating has been...
...allowed to lapse this year because of difficulty over a satisfactory date. On this small justification a seventeen year tradition was broken, when such a break severed one of the few remaining ties linking Princeton and Harvard. Though a resumption of the triangular contest is promised for next season, the failure to insure a meeting this spring remains a bit of most unfortunate planning...