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...says it's not trying to recapture the petty minutiae of the sixteenth century anyway. Shakespeare does mean something quite unacademic today, and the Dramatic Club aims to keep him alive. Theodore Spencer and Fritz Jessner have accomplished the revitalization, with a blue pencil. The Elizabethans loved the long speeches, but modern movie-trained audiences would walk out on them...
Chernyakovsky was a good bet to be the first Russian commander to reach the sea, at Königsberg or Memel, and to cut off General Georg von Lindemann's Sixteenth and Eighteenth Armies (30 to 40 divisions) in the north. Up to this week they had made no visible move to withdraw...
Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of the first recording session on which a full set of drums was used. It happened in Chicago at the old Okeh studios, and the percussionist who broke away from the hard and fast rule of showing up with only a snare drum, cymbal, woodblock, and cowbell was Eugene Krupa, fresh out of school and still on Camels...
...Radcliffe Choral Society then rendered a few selections for women's chorus alone including three Hungarian Folk Songs by Bela Bartok; "Only Tell Me", "Do Not Leave Me", and the "Teasing Song". They also sang "Awake Ye Wintry Earth", a Dutch chorale of the sixteenth century, and the Bach Chorale "Now All the Woods Are Sleeping...
...forms. Canadians merely signed their names for ration books, didn't have to account for how many pounds of groceries they owned last November. Canada's fixed price on used tires is simply 40% of what a new tire costs; OPA defines price differences down to one-sixteenth inch of tire thickness...