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...Burrows, Bishop of Chichester, famed in Great Britain for his "modern" methods of popularizing religion. Carefully he had studied the success of medieval miracle plays at Salzburg under the 20th Century Producer Max Reinhardt. Elaborate was the similar festival the earnest Bishop arranged for Canterbury. Throughout the week, Dr. Faustus by Kit Marlowe, who used to lie and dream on Canterbury's hills, was alternated with Everyman. Other attractions were concerts in the Cathedral's nave, serenades in the cloisters, chamber music in the chapter house. Newsreeling cinemen jostled through the crowds. Every event went...
...recitation of Edmund Rostand's "Selection from Cyrano de Bergerac." The Boylston award of $50 was presented to Anastos for his delivery in the original Latin of "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice", from the Fourth Georgie by Virgil. Meyer, reciting a selection from Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus", and Greene, with Tennyson's "Ulysses", were awarded the two other Boylston prizes which had been announced as $30 each but which were yesterday increased...
This evening's program will be as follows: H. G. Meyer '30: Selection from "Dr. Faustus," by Christopher Marlowe: R. H. Sharp '30: "Nine and Twenty in a Company," by Odell Shepard: J. L. Ware '30: "On the Cruiser Bill." House of Representatives, February 9, 1929, by Hon. George Huddleston: R. H. Jones '30: Selection from "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmund Rostand: W. A. Fowlie '31: "Blue Symphony," by J. G. Fletcher; Carleton Greene '30: "Ulysses," by Alfred Lord Tennyson: F. I. Kogos '29: "Boots," by Rudyard Kipling: M. V. Anastos '30: "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice," from...
...soul from the Devil. Angels came and rejoiced. Her seducer, young no more, had to go to Hell to pay the Devil's bargain. . . . President and Mrs. Coolidge, and the better part of distinguished Washington, last week enjoyed an enactment of this old tale-the tale of Dr. Faustus, legendary German philosopher, modified from Poet Goethe's tragedy for Composer Gounod's opera and re-modified into English, for the opening night of the American Opera Co. at Poli's Theatre (see Music, p. 22, for a further account). President Coolidge had been pleased to greet...
...arranged, will include the following works: Jonson's "Volpone"; Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Maid's Tragedy"; Webster's "Duchess of Malfe"; Middleton's "The Changeling"; Dryden's "All for Love"; Shelley's "Cenci"; Browning's "Blot on the Scutcheon"; Tennyson's "Becket"; Goethe's "Faust"; Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus"; Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," specially edited by Professor C. W. Bullock; "Letters" of Cicero and Pliny; Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"; Burn's "Tam O'Shanter"; Walton's "Complete Angler" and "Lives" of Donne and Herbert. "Autobiography of St. Augustine"; "Plutarch's "Lives"; Dryden's "Aeneid"; "Canterbury Tales...