Word: acted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the short time remaining before the end of the competition for the spring Dramatic Club play the executive committee has decided to include in the competition one-act plays as well as long plays, as already announced. The competition will close February...
...Stone '93 and R. W. Kelso '04 have consented to act as coach and assistant coach, respectively, of the University debating teams this year. Mr. Stone has coached four teams against Yale, all of which have been successful. Mr. Kelso has coached two of the teams which debated against Princeton. Both are graduates of the Law School and are successful lawyers now practicing in Boston...
...take our word for it, that they may go to the Hackett prepared to see not only one of the most wonderful portrayals that Mrs. Fiske has ever given but they will witness a production which is not alone extraordinary but unique. There will be moments in the first act when they will gasp at the cold-blooded, sheer brutality of the dialogues and situations; there will be times when their interest will sag, owing to the young author's too great love of mere characteristic detail; then again, they will be thrilled by the strength of many...
...word, a very remarkable production of a very unusual play. Its few faults are easily remedied; the prayer at the climax of the second act is not effective. The curtain should fall on Nell's line to her child: 'Pray as you have never prayed before.' The opening of the third act drags too much with street detail, and the entrance of Myrtle gives this scene its one false note. But these are tiny specks upon a wonderfully effective stage sun. Mrs. Fiske's production as well as her performance at the Hackett will go down into theatrical history...
...Sheldon has been well trained in the technical understanding and resource that can be taught-that are taught, indeed, at Harvard-and he has profited by his training. Admirable and surprising in the first act is his willingness to suggest his characters as they come and go, and not particularize in minute exposition. He is willing even that they disclose themselves and imply their own backgrounds. Oftener, however, the higher technique that would have saved him from some of his confusions and changes of key, for example, and that each man must learn for himself in his chosen profession, evades...