Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awake and Sing! (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, Inc., producer) is an earnest investigation of the home life of a family of Bronx Jews. The burden of Playwright Odets' lament is that the Bergers and their friends would not be so wretched if it were not for the crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine...
Admirably acted, carefully produced and for the most part intelligently and honestly written, Awake and Sing! seems to have unexpectedly backfired on Playwright Odets. His triumphal ending, with Brother Ralph profiting by Grandfather's insurance and Sister Hennie and Axelrod running away to Bermuda on his pension, depends ironically on two prime financial usufructs of the economic system which Playwright Odets has spent two hours browbeating...
...those who are able to sing either "The Keeper" or the Netherlands folk song, "The Prayer of Thanksgiving," are invited to the Glee Club concert Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in Sanders Theatre, where the audience is expected to join in as the songs are sung. This is a recent innovation on the part of the Glee Club...
...rest of the program, which the Glee Club hopes to sing alone, the following songs will be heard: Handel's "Let Their Celestial Concerts All unite"; the English folk song "Spanish Ladies"; Brahms' "Three Love Songs": "Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song," "A Tremer's in the Branches," and "From Yon Hills"; the Chorale and Finale from Wagner's "Die Meistersinger"; and the choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe...
...Harvard Glee Club will sing alone: "My Bonny Lass," by Morley; "O Gladsome Light," by Archibald T. Davison '06, a former conductor of the Glee Club; "Spanish Ladies," an English folk song; "Brennan on the Moor," an English folk song; and the following choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe": "With Strephon for Your Foe", "Henceforth Strephon," "I'm very Much Pained," and "A Shepherd...