Word: drama
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World War I, educated at Howard University, Union Theological Seminary, Yale, the Sorbonne, University of Berlin, became Dillard's president in 1936. Dr. Nelson determined to give his students a useful education, to foster art among Negroes in the Deep South. He sent extension teachers of music and drama to towns in Louisiana and Mississippi to organize singers and players in schools, churches. At Dillard, Dr. Nelson made every sophomore take a course in art appreciation, also required both sexes to take courses in homemaking...
...blurbs promise a musical feast, but what is actually offered are the more hackneyed numbers from the Verdi repertoire, indifferently performed and badly integrated with such plot as there is. Gaby Morlay's sensitive acting provides the only stable note in this flabby drama, which amounts, at best, to a tolerably exact biography...
...black wings over Cordell Hull's doorway fitted well with the mood over Washington and the U. S. Had not the drama and the villain been seen before, the lines known to the audience almost by heart? Last week the President of the U. S., receiving the Ministers of Denmark and Norway, did not hide his sympathy for them and their countries. The 1,500,000-odd Scandamericans in the U. S. prayed, raised relief funds, damned Hitler (and Great Britain, whom many taxed with provoking the invasion...
...celebrate their Christmas, Megiddos went this week to Assistant Pastor Percy J. Thatcher's drama, Pilgrims of Light. Longer than an O'Neill tragedy, it took two nights to perform in the flower-banked, frame mission hall, told the story of brothers who traveled round the world in their search for Truth. For Megiddo children, who do not believe in Santa Claus, there were quantities of useful gifts...
...undergraduate settles in his chair, he will hear Faculty members, record programs, mostly classical, concerts, from the Pierian, Glee Club, and Stradivarius Quartet. Argument, with forums. Drama, with radio plays. And sideline, ringside, poolside chatter till his spine prickles...