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...Score: New Hampshire 24; Harvard 32. Time: 18.51. Winner; R. S. Playfair '36, Webster (NH), MacLean (NH), Tinker (NH), J. R. O'Neill '36, Mathews (NH), L. H. Orr '36, D. Gratwick '36, Marlak (NH), Thompson (NH), L. C. Lean '36, T. L. Day '36, E. W. Dalton '36, Spear (NH), Greene (NH), McNally (NH), R. M. Peet '36, A. M. Josephy '36, E. T. Farley '36, Chase...
...their choruses, second-string sing ers and orchestra players, Laurence Productions drew largely upon Cleveland tal ent. They assembled 500 performers for Carmen, plus donkeys and mules. To last year's spectacular Aïda, they added 100 new spear-carriers. The small, patient, well-scrubbed elephant of Aïda was present once more, figured also in Tom-Tom. In Die Walkure there were not the usual nine but 17 Valkyries galloping over the mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real...
...viaduct to the packing house. When he reaches the killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin...
Summer operagoers are informal, easygoing. For them there should be staple fare, easy to look at as well as listen to. All the better if the impresario can jumble onto his stage spear-carriers, dancing girls, supernumeraries by the score. If possible, let there be animals! Could there be camels in Carmen? Elephants in Pelleas et Melisande? Hardly. Of all operatic staples, Aïda does best outdoors. Consequently, Aïda's familiar tunes ring sweetly every summer in many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more...
...brave Yawalapiti would not for a long time touch the "egg" dropped by the sky-thing. When it gave out no sound, no movement, no smell, one brave ventured to poke it with his fishing spear. The sack uttered a tinkle. The Yawalapiti leaped upon it, ripped it with his sharp spear. Out fell knives, fishhooks and other trade goods-which delighted them...