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Roar of steam and clank of steel have long made many conscious of the excavation going on for the new University Gymnasium on the plot of ground bounded by Dunster, South, Holyoke, and Winthrop Streets. The digging attracts scores who are awed by the work itself. Few however, realize the historical significance of this ground, which hour by hour, week by week, is being scooped up in the huge jaws of the steam shovels, and carried away by a never ending stream of trucks. For some time the workers of the Hegeman, Harris Co., of New York, the contractors have...
...during his four Harvard years from 1876 to 1880 stood until last fall at the corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets. Many witnessed the sensational moving of the historic Hicks house, which remained for the first 166 years of its existence on the Dunster-Winthrop Street corner of the plot. But these two buildings stood witness to but a small portion of the rich history this remarkable ground has borne upon its surface...
Thus the story of Journey's End. The plot itself is not nearly so involved. It is a simple war story of ten men in a dugout during 36 hours that precede a German attack. Their reactions form the basis of the play. They snarl, they laugh, they fight, they cower, they die. Standing out among them is one who hopes for death. He has drowned cowardice with whiskey. He has nothing for which to live. On the eve of the attack there is sent to his company the brother of the girl he loves−the last person...
Ibsen himself seems to have walked a tightrope in conceiving its plot. It is, in its own terms, the story of a woman unable to forget the hypnotic eyes of a suitor. But beneath this there is a story told in symbols, a story of the lure of the great mystery of the sea. To blend these two moods is a task requiring great skill. Miss Yurka and her Actors' Theater company meet the demands at times and at others they fail...
Buckaroo. "With a cast of 60," the billboards announce proudly. That may be the trouble. Getting a cast of 60 on and off the stage is a task in itself. By the time it is accomplished in this play little time is left for the plot...