Word: acted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dramatic Club will give the last performance of the three one-act plays which comprise its spring production in Copley Hall, Boston, this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Seats at $1.50 and $1.00 are on sale at the Co-operative Branch, Herrick's, and Brentford...
...signs of the same dangerous tendency toward merely materialistic realism appear in Mr. H. F. Brock's one-act play, "The Bank Account." Its conclusion might well have been made more poignant and powerful without violating truth to life, for even a being mentally so starved as its chief character would express himself more fully upon the defeat of all his hopes. On the whole, however, the piece is skillful and affecting. Its theme is a timely one, and recalls the candid words in which Mrs. Andrew W. White last year condemned "the neglect of the great body of women...
...best performance of the evening was that of "The Clod." Here the acting was so good as to make the illusion complete, and one became absorbed wholly in the story. It is a tale of the Civil War, but that threadbare theme appears for once in a new and surprising form. The principal character a woman too dull to apprehend the great meanings of the conflict, too apathetic to be moved by the peril of thirty thousand men, is by an insult which would seem comparatively trivial to others, but which wounds her only pride, suddenly turned into a fury...
...course there are interpolations, but they are so few that they do not slow up the movement, and they are well worth doing. Perkins' accounts of baseball from the British and Italian points of view is almost Caseyan, and the society comedy skit and the movies act are both entertaining...
...first public performance of three one-act plays by the Dramatic Club will be given in Brattle Hall this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The plays are: "The Bank Account," by, H. F. Brock sC.; "The Fourflushers," by C. Kinkead sC.; and "The Clod" by E. L. Beach '13. All of the authors are members of Professor G. P. Baker's course, English...