Word: comical
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Society will present this year, as its annual play, a comic opera in two acts, entitled "The Will-o-the Wisp." The scene is laid in a country district of Maine. The book is by D. P. Cook '05, and the music by F. H. Grey '06, A. T. Davison '06, and H. R. Pratt '06. Mr. N. H. White '95, is again acting as graduate coach, and will be assisted in teaching the dances by Mr. J. J. Coleman. The orchestra music will be arranged by Mr. Max Zach of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Rehearsals are now in progress...
...lecture on Hindu drama, "The Little Clay Cart," to be given by Dr. Ryder this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. The play is an old one, probably of the sixth century, and furnishes many interesting glimpses of life in ancient India. It abounds in comic scenes, and has seemed to the moderns of sufficient interest to warrant its being given in Berlin and Paris. An account of the play in Paris may be found in the Revue de Paris for 1895. C. R. LANMAN...
...Society will give the eighth and last performance of its comic opera, "Prince Punjab," in the Pi Eta club house, Winthrop square, at 8 o'clock tonight...
...Society gave the first public performance in Cambridge of its comic opers. "Prince Punjab," in the club theatre on Winthrop Square last night. The finale of the first act, sung in parts by the whole cast of fifty voices, without the orchestra, showed the excellent chorus work which is characteristic of the whole play. The Moon Song, the Bathing Suit Song, and the Chinaman's Automobileing are also especially worthy of mention. The best acting was done by J. C. Miler 2L., as Sthu Pld, the Chinaman; R. Wellman '03, as the antiquarian, and C. P. Whorf '05, as Eben...
...Society will give the first public performance in Cambridge of its two act comic opera, "Prince Punjab," in the Pi Eta club-house, Winthrop Square, at 8 o'clock tonight. During the vacation the play was presented in Malden, Lowell, and at the Hollis Street Theatre, Boston, and as a result of the experience of these presentations the play is now running with more smoothness and spirit than on graduates' night. There will be a second Cambridge performance tomorrow evening and a third on Friday evening, May 1. Tickets for all three performances are on sale at Thurston...