Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This production is the first one of German origin that has been presented. Last year the play was translated from an old French manuscript, and the year before an ancient English version was given, dating from the thirteenth century. This play is really a Christmas mystery play, one of the earliest types of drama. A miracle play is properly a drama dealing with the career of some saint...
...Call football players 'modern gladiators' if you will, but remember that the ancient lost everything, while the modern loses a little pleasure perhaps, but gains permanently in other ways...
Fenway--"The Ancient Highway...
...beamed hall, once Mr. Vanderbilt's dining-room; but most of the payees preferred to spend their time walking through the five floors of echoing empty rooms, coveting the crystal drops on the great girandoles, or peering at Mrs. Vanderbilt's carved marble bathtub. James Ward, ancient watchman of the premises, pointed out that once it cost more than a dollar to buy one's way into the Vanderbilt dining-room. The proceeds went to charity...
Fenway -- "The Ancient Highway...