Word: versions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cells by circulars "which always fall into the hands of the police," and were told to keep their records and reports to Moscow "as concise as possible." Though authority for the above accounts rests solely upon a statement issued, last week, by the German secret police, their version of the seditious proceedings at Cassel smacks strongly of the typical, half naive and half ruthless methods of the Third International...
Among the plays which may be given by the college dramatists are listed "The Dover Road," by A. A. Milne, "The Torch Bearers," by George Kelley, "The Mosque of Venice," by George D. Gribble, "Beyond the Horizon," by Eugene O'Neill. The modern dress version of "The Taming of the Shrew," presented by the Dramatic Club last spring, will again be given this summer, with the same students carrying the lead roles. In addition, "Open Collars," a prize-winning play written by Erik Barnouw, of Princeton, may be presented...
After breakfast, he remains at the table, reads out loud from Sunlit Days (a poem and a prayer for each day of the year). Then a guest reads to him from My Daily Meditation by the late Rev. J. H. Jowett and from a modern version of the New Testament...
...Story. The authors of Genesis could not have had more fun than Norman Douglas. In his version of the beginning, when "the thing called Sin had not yet been invented," there were gods in the Celestial Halls, and on earth Satyrs, serenely beautiful. These Satyrs were the first and best to cultivate the earth and the arts of music, weaving, medicine, meteorology. In fact they grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient...
Volpone. When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...