Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gertrude Stein in that lady's only opera, and Joe Losey, director of "Lil' Ole Boy," is rare indeed. But the consideration of these facts must make the critical judgment of the effort more searching than would otherwise be the case. In respect to theme, "A Bride for the Unicorn" cannot be considered as more than a competent synthesis of a group of philosophical and aesthetic conceptions which have been in circulation at a conservative estimate, for fifteen years...
...lights grow dim and the curtain rises over at Brattle Hall tonight at 8.30 o'clock, the assembled audience will be treated to a highly original and satirical comedy on modern life, a production which has attracted more interest than any recent Dramatic Club offering--"A Bride for the Unicorn" will come to life...
...percussion instruments will accompany the chantings of the Greek chorus, which is to consist of two groups of eight singers (members of the Giee Club in everyday life.) The music, or "rhythmic score" as it is known in this instance, has been written especially for "A Bride for the Unicorn" by Virgil Thomson, a rising star among young American musicians...
When Ada Louise Comstock,* president of Radcliffe College, read the script of A Bride for the Unicorn, spring production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, she decided the play "unsuitable for young college girls," ordered eleven Radcliffe students to quit the cast during rehearsal...
Virgil Thomson, composer of the rhythmic pattern score of "A Bride for the Unicorn" the Harvard Dramatic Club production, arrived in Cambridge yesterday to take personal charge of the chorus and orchestra for the production. Thomson's big work has been the composition of the musical score for Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts." The score, dedicated to the Harvard Dramatic Club...