Word: classical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brattle Theater Company has in the past devoted its efforts to the ancient and modern classics, and perhaps one could say that "The Guardsman" is a classic of that kind, though of a far different cut of cloth. The fiber is weak but the pattern is bright, and the present wearers have given it a remarkable sheen...
...outs for the modern adaptation of the Sophocles classic start tomorrow. Anouilh's play was first presented in Paris under the Nazi occupation in 1941, and according to the HDC was intended as anti-totalitarian propaganda...
...Reel's book should be much more the concern of American readers than Japanese. Two months after publication, it has sold only 2,100 copies. Yet it is a classic of its kind, a superbly presented, toughly argued, dramatic and damning report on American justice in a case of fundamental importance...
...least two outspoken architects thought not. Complained Philadelphia's J. Roy Carroll Jr.: "The designs for the most part are pale copies of those executed after the first World War, with the usual classic pavilion, symmetrical stairways and Grecian urns." Architect George Daub agreed: "It should have been competitive...
Last week, at 21, Shirley completed Hollywood's classic domestic cycle-and startled millions of Americans who have followed her precocious public & private life with affection and a worrisome feeling that the years do whiz by. She filed a divorce suit against handsome, 28-year-old John Agar, the Army Air Forces sergeant who became a cinemactor after their marriage four years...