Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some lesser fry. But all these plays, warmed by humor or pricked by wit, were far removed from the solemn fudge of the Servant in the House era, made neither God nor Death embarrassing. On Borrowed Time, though pleasant, was very likely the most overrated play of the season. But Our Town (the Pulitzer Prize play), despite a third act which got beyond its depth, squeezed so much honest feeling, poetry and humor into its first two acts as to be, if not technically the season's best play, its most notable event in the theatre. Best play technically...
...season produced no first-rate comedy, and, though its biggest guns were all on the serious side, no important play with social significance. (Of Mice and Men and Golden Boy had social material, but no major social theme.) But social significance ran away with the musical field, providing a tense, pounding strike drama in The Cradle Will Rock, a fresh, spirited revue in Pins and Needles. Best of the straight musicals: Hooray for What!, thanks to the clowning of Ed Wynn, the music of Harold Arlen...
Last week, as Glyndebourne opened its fifth season of opera (eight weeks), fashionable Londoners piled into trains and automobiles for their annual pilgrimage. The 600 seats in Glyndebourne's diminutive opera house cost between $7.50 and $10 apiece, and dinner at Glyndebourne served between the acts adds another $2 to the visitor's bill...
...Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing as General Manager, the first Glyndebourne opera season was launched. It lasted two weeks; the audience for the opening performance numbered twelve. But Christie, Busch, Ebert and Bing were undiscouraged. The press gave them a big hand. In 1936 they enlarged their auditorium, planned a bigger season for the following year. By the end of the 1936 season...
...Princeton's track team, undefeated in dual meets this year; the fourth annual Heptagonal meet (with Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Penn), climax of the Ivy League season; scoring in 13 of the 15 events and winning four (half-mile, 440-yd. relay, broad jump, hammer throw) ; for a total of 59¼ points; before a crowd of 10,000; at Princeton, N. J. Cornell was second, Columbia third...