Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubtless one of the rarest forms of twentieth century amusement is that of attending a Roman comedy, presented in the ancient style, with Roman scenery and costumes, and with the lines all in Latin. And indeed proportional to the rarity is the greatness of the opportunity for witnessing the "Menaechmi", the comedy of Plautus, produced by the Harvard Classical Club...
...performance last night in Sanders Theatre was carried off with a dash and vivacity which was hardly expected by the majority of the audience. The Latin, instead of appearing as a cumbersome medium for the players to handle, rolled off their tongues with startling fluency. And although a bit difficult to catch the meaning of the lines by ear, with the aid of the translation prepared by R. W. Hyde '30 and E. C. Weist '30 the significance was conveyed very clearly. Inasmuch as in all comedy the humor lies mainly in complications of situation rather than in character delineation...
...Juvenal Satires in Latin", Professor Peterkin, Sever...
...expected that the translations of the dialogue, which, along with tickets, are now on sale at the Coop, Leavitt and Pierce's and Herrick's, will aid the audience in following the lively action of the Latin dramatist's comedy of mistaken identity...
Those to whom the classics are best represented by the unmarked graves of tattered text books and whose Latin is bounded by the three parts of Gaul will go to the Sanders Theatre tonight to at least a compromise with the ancients. Those who have found in the classics a metal that never tarnishes will go to be again confirmed. When in 1906 the Classical Club presented "Agamemnon", the twentieth century found its somber colors still unfaded under the stadium sky. In 1930 the robust comedy of Plautus will paint in lighter, sharper colors the humors and frailties...