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Tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 in the same place, Mme Galli Curel will sing some beautiful seventeenth and eighteenth century songs from the French and Italian, airs from Mozart's "Figaro" and a number of other very interesting selections, prominent among which is Benedict's "Gipsy and the Bird", for which there will be a flute obligate...
Yesterday four Seventeenth Century tracts, strongly reminiscent of Harvard College in its infancy were put on display in the Treasure Room of Widener Library in the "Early College History" collection. Each of the valuable time worn little volumes is either wholly or partly the work of George Downing of the class of 1642, the first graduating class Harvard College turned out Downing himself was the second oldest graduate of his class, Benjamin Wood bridge being the senior member of the class...
...Lord whose services the Pi Eta Club have secured for the seventeenth consecutive year in producing their annual show has invited the cast of "Castles in the Air", now playing in Boston to be the guest of the Pi Eta players and make any suggestions. They have accepted and are expected the latter part of the week. Only recently Helen Hayes and Kenneth MacKenna, stars of "What Every Woman Knows", gave advice to the cast at a tea.--Courtesy Alumni Bulletin.THE PI ETA "GIRLS" GET A LESSON IN LOVE-MAKING FROM HELEN HAYES AND HER LEADING MAN Left to Right...
Oddly enough, the Venice of the seventeenth century and America of our own time, seem to have many points of similarity. It was vastly entertaining to find, in reading the old comedies, that the authors were using the same tricks, the same jokes, as are common in our vaudeville, burlesque, and musical shows. Business which we associate with Chaplin, Jolson, Tinney, Bobby Clark, Fannie Brice, and the Four Marx Brothers, was invented by the Harlequins and Sganarellos of the Venetian comedy; subjects which are treated in full page advertisements today, were touched off in light repartee on the trestles...
...singers of the English poetic renaissance of the seventeenth century, none sang more sweetly than Richard Lovelace whose tiny body of musical verse still delights the lovers of poetry. Imprisonment for his part in the Revolution in 1642 could not quench his ardor nor still his lyre, and he sang unceasingly of his Aramantha or his Lucasta. His lyrics have all the freshness of the Elizabethan morning, and breathe the spirit of liberty that characterized his age and is the keynote of the work of such of his followers as Byron and Shelley...