Word: acte
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Baker said that the Elizabethan period was distinctly a dramatic epoch. At school boys were obliged to study Latin plays, and sometimes used to act in them. At the university great interest was taken in dramatic art; and when the Queen visited Oxford or Cambridge, she bestowed a prize on the one who wrote the best Latin play. This sort of training naturally produced a coterie of skilful playwrights...
Considerable difficulty is being experienced by the committee in charge of the Harvard-Princeton debate in securing satisfactory judges. The Princeton committee have submitted the names of about forty gentlemen in all whom they would be willing to have act in that capacity; of these many have not been satisfactory to Harvard and most of the others have refused to serve. The third communication including the names of several new possible judges was received from Princeton today and it is hoped that from these the selection can be finally made...
...greatly to be regretted that Dr. Sargent has found it necessary to close the Trophy Room because of the act of vandalism reported in another column. Undergraduates have always valued the many trophies and photographs which commemorate Harvard's victories and call to mind the men who in the past have represented Harvard in athletics...
...certain that, whatever may be the result of these discussions, it will never be known what Shakespeare thought about the madness of Hamlet. The mystery in the play is its chief attraction. It would have been easy for Shakespeare to make a puzzle in the first four acts, and to solve this puzzle in the fifth act. If he did not wish to do this, why should we? The work is Shakespeare's most conspicuous confronting of the mysteries beyond this life...
...Theatre will present "Trilby," the new dramatization of Paul M. Potter. This is the first time that any attempt has been made to introduce "Trilby" on the stage and the outcome will be awaited with interest The atmosphere of the Latin quarter pervades the whole of the first two acts. The third act shows a scene in Drury Lane Theatre, with a distant view of the stage, where may be seen Trilby and the orchestra leader. The tumult aroused by her failure to sing and the subsequent death of Svengali end this act. The fourth act depicts the tragic death...