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...Bride for the Unicorn" is very nearly parallel to a prohibition on college girls acting in one of the great tragedies; yet Vassar gives Greek plays regularly. A still closer parallel can be found in "Mourning Becomes Electra," with the extremely important distinction that while this is handled realistically, Johnston's play is symbolic. Thus it would be more absurd for Harvard Dramatic Club advisers to ban the latter than O'Neill's play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADICAL RADCLIFFE | 4/17/1934 | See Source »

...modernistic musical score for the Harvard Dramatic Club's spring play, "A Bride for the Unicorn" by Dennis Johnston, will be composed by Vigil Thompson, former director of the Harvard Glee Club, and one of America's foremost modern composers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB TO USE MODERN MUSICAL SCORE | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Bride for the Unicorn," by Denis Johnston, has been selected as the Harvard Dramatic Club's spring production, the date of which has not yet been decided. Although this play was not included on the first list of possibilities, the officers feel that they are fortunate in securing permission to produce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PICKS CAST FOR SPRING PLAY | 3/28/1934 | See Source »

...honest, though diluted, for quite a third of the way," Author Graves pointed out the patent fact that the novel as Dickens left it is a first-rate book stuffed with second-rate padding. Graves offered "no apologies for tampering with a reputed classic." The late Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, novelist and explorer, had written a continuation of Dombey & Son without stirring up a hornet's nest. But going on from where Dickens left off was not the same thing as doing Dickens' job over. Rewriter Graves further annoyed Dickensians by asserting that three out of four readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dickens Brushed Up | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...yard free style--Won by Karl S. Tenney; second, Thomas F. Myles; third, John R. Johnston. Time--2 minutes, 37 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S. M. MOORMAN VICTOR IN FIRST YEAR SWIMMING | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

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