Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...heroism when he takes refuge in the ancestral sailor's life. Sluggish oceans of local color, however, have swamped the hero whom the Atlantic surges could not harm. Condensation is sadly needed. Mr. Putnam would voice the emotions of a Nietzschean Superman trying to behave like an Elizabethan gallant, with disastrous results. His Sonnet (the form should not be divided like a Petrarcan sonnet, into octet and sestet) is a rash venture into archaic realms. Mr. Sanger's "Children's Land," faintly reminiscent of the song that thrilled the Brushwood Boy, is mildly pleasing though not distinguished. An occasional awkward...
...adjoining. Just beyond the elevators and opening directly from the grill-room, is a large lobby, forming the entrance to the new dining hall, which with its service appurtenances, will occupy the entire area of the 45th street addition. The decorations of this hall are to be in the Elizabethan style, in harmony with that of Harvard Hall...
...Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon will this year present Thomas Shadwell's "Bury Fair," the sixteenth production of old English plays. Although the play does not fall under the Elizabethan period, it has so many affinities of story and characterization that the Chapter has gone out of its proper field to present it. The play is a farce comedy whose humor is surprisingly up to date as a satire on our own social system...
...Hume 1G. has been engaged by the Delta Upsilon Society to coach the Elizabethan comedy which will be presented in March. He is well known through his work in the Dramatic Club and the "47 Workshop," and his thorough acquaintance with dramatic technique in all departments gives promise that he will make the revival of "Bury Fair" a success...
...distinguished list of revivals of Elizabethan plays, the Delta Upsilon this year adds Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." The production is ambitious and interesting. For one of the first times in this country a setting is shown such as Munich and other German cities have long used for Shakespearean plays. A dark blue cyclrama drop fills the back of the stage. At front as a kind of inner proscenium, or as replacing the tormentors of former days, are doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain...