Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student drama society, the Acting Class, made its debut yesterday with a performance of short scenes from Molnar, Shaw, and Wilder. The group, an off-shoot of the Dramatic Club, presented the episodes in the Fogg Large Room...
...short scene from Ferene Molnar's drama about a carousel operator, "Lilliem," Hawkins again had the titel role. Stanley A. Zemon '52 took the part of his accomplice. Wayland W. Boswer '53, William J. Burns '53, and England also had parts...
...arrogant and stubborn Negro from a lynching, and the Negro himself, are obscure characters in the film, though they are most important ones. Many things in the movies compensate for the loss of Mr. Faulkner's method of storytelling, but to have been a thoroughly satisfactory piece of drama, the principal characters, particularly the boy, need more dimension...
...objections to gory programs of all kinds. We're convinced that horror on television is a mistake and bound to bring unfavorable mass reaction sooner or later." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, owner of KSD-TV, editorialized: "Dramatic murder ... is older than Sophocles. But ... the most popular dramas have never displayed, as their principal reason for being, bashed heads and riddled bodies. As employed by television, these are the devices of third-rate drama and first-rate irresponsibility...
...general subject of cancer and the patient, the authoress is a little more competent--not because she knows any more about doctor-patient relations in cancer but because the element of drama which the interjects is more apropos to hospital scenes than to the laboratory. But her tear jerking little stories about women who are too modest to submit to examination and girls who must lose their ovaries are overly melodramatic. Such writing might increase the popular fear of cancer rather than control...