By
AJ Fox, The Dartmouth Staff
Laura Henderson was not a woman to spend her days knitting.
Widowed at the tender age of 75, this indomitably eccentric British heiress used her late husband’s tremendous fortune to purchase and renovate a theater in London during the 1930s, where she staged musical revues featuring — dare I even say it? — naked women! The Windmill Theater, which the internet informs me is still around today, was famous for remaining open even amidst the German aerial bombardment during World War II. Between fending off air raids from the Nazis, British soldiers would head to the underground theater to enjoy women in various states of undress performing a nonstop musical routine. Clearly, military life was not without its perks in those days.
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If you thought you would never see Lone Pine Tavern listed as a hot venue on mtv.com, find a new benchmark of impossibility. Tonight, Friday Night Rock will temporarily become Monday Night Rock in order to introduce the Dartmouth campus to the neo-psychedelic indie pop group Of Montreal, a band that has generated so much buzz over the years that admission to the show might get more competitive than admission to college. Doors open at 9 p.m., and the FNR staff stresses Lone Pine’s limited capacity and its “first come, first served” policy. Translation: start lining up early to see the best live musical performance of the term.
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I was the slightest bit skeptical when I read the title of the play “This Is Our Youth.” After all, I discovered that the play was written in the late ’90s with the early ’80s as its backdrop. This was not my youth; it was the youth of dot-com prodigies and the original tech kids. But as I emerged from the play’s preview show last Friday night, I was struck by how “Youth” displays the universal disillusionment, uncertainty and invincibility that typify the youth of every decade. The simple, stately title “This Is Our Youth” hints at a shared experience, though it barely hints at the complexities of this tragicomic work.
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To continue the celebration of movies that began last night with the Oscars, the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra will perform a program called “John Williams — Master of the Motion Picture,” at 7:30 tonight in Collis Common Ground. The Chamber Orchestra’s program includes the Orchestral Suite from “Star Wars” and music from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
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