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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Village Wooing, "A comediettina for two voices" in three "conversations," lasts less than an hour, has two characters, A and Z. A is a misanthropic author who meets Z, a country telephone operator and general store salesgirl, on a world cruise. Against his will, by reason of her commonsense and persistence, she marries him when they are later thrown together in her village store. With no vestige of a Cause at stake, Playwright Shaw has contented himself with assembling snatches of agreeable small talk. A snatch not so agreeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comediettina in Dallas | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...will be the name of a dance to be given by the Menorah Society on Wednesday, April 18, in the Golden Room of the Princeton Hotel, Boston. The dance committee for the event is headed by, Herbert D. Tobin '35; the other members of the committee are Milton Z. Paisner '36, Howard M. Lawn '34, Edward Levy '35, Herbert W. Beaser '34, Abraham J. Creidenburg '36, and Norman J. Harris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menorah To Give Dance | 4/14/1934 | See Source »

...George Z. Medalie, former Federal Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will speak at an open meeting in Langdell Hall this evening, under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks Law School Committee. Mr. Medalie's subject will be "Observations on Courts and Lawyers"; he will be introduced by Edmund M. Morgan '02, professor of Evidence and Common Law Procedure at the Harvard Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medalie To Speak for P.B.H. On "Observations on Courts" | 3/28/1934 | See Source »

...Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Marianne Moore, Basil Bunting, T. S. Eliot and himself. These selections show the effect of a thoroughly deracinated culture upon some poets, for tradition must have stronger ties than recondite allusions to forgotten epics and obscure quotations from moth-eaten manuscripts in Continental archives. L. Z.'s notes provide some elucidation of the passages from the "XXX Cantos," but there is still not enough clarity for the plain reader. "The Red Front," by Louis Aragon, in the translation of e. e. cummings, is less eccentric than the selections from cummings' own "Eimi." T. S. Eliot...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/8/1934 | See Source »

...Parker remarked to others in her party: "Well, let's go back and see Katharine Hepburn run the gamut of human emotion from A to B." This cruel mot epitomizes the spirit of After Such Pleasures, a categorical drubbing of womanhood and all its works from A to Z...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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