Word: branglebrink
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dress rehearsal of Branglebrink was held at the Hasty Pudding Club house yesterday afternoon. The play was given with dash throughout, and for a dress rehearsal was remarkably successful. The principals have their lines faultlessly committed and give them with confidence. The chorus have been carefully trained by Mr. Gilbert; they have many original figures-the Maypole dance at the opening of the second act being especially tasteful...
...some time past the chorus and principals in "Branglebrink" have given most of their attention to the final act, so that the entire play is now well in hand. Complete rehearsals with the orchestra will be begun on Monday, and the first performance on Graduates' Night, Thursday, April 9, will find the whole cast in a state of thorough preparation. The club has been very fortunate this year in the selection of a trainer. Mr. James Gilbert has won the confidence and praise of all connected with the play, and his efforts are sure to be rewarded with success...
...scenery for "Branglebrink" has been designed by E. G. Knoblauch '96. Costumes will be furnished by Shirley Smith, and wigs by Charles Garey, both of Boston...
...annual spring theatricals of the Hasty Pudding Club will be, as already announced, a three act comic opera, entitled "Branglebrink, or a Weary Wanderer's Woeful Wooing." The Libretto is by Ralph Milbourne Townsend '96, and the music by Frank Bruce Whittemore '96, Robert Gorham Morse '96, and John Alden Carpenter...
During the absence of King John of Sylvania on a crusade to the Holyland, Bishop Christian and Sir Daniel de Lion enter into a conspiracy against him in Branglebrink. The insurrection which they plan is intended to set the Bishop himself on the throne; whereupon de Lion, having married the Bishop's ward, would be pronounced heir apparent. Before their plans can be carried out, however, the King with one faithful friend returns from the Holyland in disguise. As the two tramps, Tatters and Robbie, they impose upon the credulous Bishop by a pretense of magic knowledge, and discover...