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Unlike his last year's production of "Julius Caesar," Mr. Welles is planning to include all the true Shakespearian costumes in his new play. He pointed out that "Five Kings" is a period play, while a close analogy can be drawn between the problems in "Julius Caesar" and present-day conditions...
...themselves. It means greater stress on practical art and design; and more than this, a close integration of practical work and history. It means the coordination of art with other branches of knowledge. It means finally the demonstration of the connection between the Fine Arts and the present-day world. The arts would consequently cease to be beautiful expressions from a past period of history, and would become something of living significance...
...easy to be seen that the following humorous definitions of present-day "isms", now going the Washington rounds, did not originate with New Deal braintrusters...
...velvety and letter-perfect as ever. To the irreverent, there might be something a trifle ritualistic about the performances, as though the matter in hand were sacred music rather than light opera; but the devout could only praise Heaven that nothing had been changed, that not a single present-day allusion had been adlibbed into the patter songs...
...true antitoxin for overspecialization, it resurrects the ideal of "knowing a little about a lot," and above all stresses good teaching. When Dean Hanford recalls great names like Bliss Perry, Norton, and Palmer, he unintentionally brings to mind the scarcity of such men in present-day Harvard. With teachers who can stimulate from the platform as well as in the study the 'University will more closely approximate a broad, liberal education than by any other means...