Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded more like a familiar gramophone record about Spain than a vibrant radio voice. It also did not sound overmuch like what Hemingway had written. In Adapter Glazer's hands, it was less a personal memoir of Spain than a general tale of war. There was more drama in it, but more melodrama. Its sexual passion had been transformed into romantic love, its psychological conflicts swollen into moral crises...
...study of drama, I find the buskin, or boot, signifies a tragedy; and the sock, similar to a light moccasin, denotes a comedy...
...hare to put your heart in it," Talluish stated when queried on student drama. "Almost any one can do justice to a play with enough real enthusiasm and hard work. Hell, that's what made me an actress...
...their travel through the land, Thalia and Mclpomene alight at Yale, Vassar, Princeton, and Dartmouth but never at Harvard. For the Muses of Comedy and tragedy know that here the drama is a stepchild, a poor relation, unwelcome guest. Harvard extends no open arms or vast theatres to the Mummer clan; from Bernhardt to Folies Bergere girl, the reception is a cold one. Frozen out though it is, the drama child yet struggles for existence. As the snows thaw and the leafy season approaches, the HSU and the HDC alike announce their spring efforts. Each of them has chosen exceptionally...
...Dramatic Club returned from a theatrical grave with their production of a few years ago of "Dog Beneath the Skin. "And the Student Union, after an exciting version of "The Cradle Will Rock," is undertaking an Odets and a MacLeish play. Surely all these excursions into the world of drama by Harvard men show that there is a real and permanent interest in the theatre at Cambridge; surely they show also that a theatre-an honest-to-goodness theatre with a real curtain-would be a good investment. There have been offers of theatres made to the Corporation before; there...