Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days before the opening the play is whipped into shape. Then the cursing beings. What seemed funny beforehand doesn't seem at all funny now. Finally comes the Sunday night before the Monday opening, when the final dress rehearsal occurs. It starts at 7 o'clock in the evening and continues until about 7 or 8 o'clock the following morning. Then the weeks spent on the road before going into New York are full of trials. One audience never sees exactly the same performance that another sees...
History as it is written in the present is yet very different from the history of a generation or two ago. Professor David S Muzzey of Columbia in a lecture Sunday at Repertory Hall emphasized the fact that history has to be constantly rewritten. "You could not study a text-book in physics written sixty years ago without making yourself ridiculous," he stated. "No more can you study a text-book of history written sixty years ago on the American Revolution. Historical scholars are continually discovering new material...
...GIRL-Vina Delmar-Harcourt Brace ($2). On a Hudson River Sunday excursion boat-jazz under bright lights, petting in the shadows-Dot of the Bronx picks up Harlem Eddie (not colored), gets goin' with him steady, falls for him (i.e. is seduced) and thus becomes a bad girl. But she marries him next day, and soon enough has a child. Simply this and nothing more-but what more is there...
...Mademoiselle de la Seigliere," a four act comedy, will be presented next Saturday and Sunday, at the Fine Arts Theatre, by the Cerole Francais of Harvard...
Professor of sociology, the author recognizes one of America's "problems" in the itinerant Negro "with the don't keer spirit, go day, come day, God send Sunday." But he sees the sociological evil in a setting of romance, and suggests graphically, if a bit lengthily, that his black hero's vaguely discontented lack of ambition is somewhat atoned by the charm of his sudden optimism...