Word: comical
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...existence for a good many years while at Harvard there was no such organization based exclusively on dramatics. There were the Elizabethan revivals of the Delta Upsilon to be sure, the productions of the Cercle Francais and an annual play by the Deutscher Verein, not to mention a comic opera here and there to provide a lighter form of entertainment; but in all this, there was however, not a single organization which professed as its only excuse for existence a fundamental interest in the drama. Accordingly, the new club was formed and immediately took a step in advance of other...
Professsor I. L. Winter '86 will give his first reading from Shakspere's comedy, "Twelfth Night," in Sever 11, this evening at 7.45 o'clock. The reading will be from act I, scenes 3 and 5, and act IV, scene 3, including the comic scenes of the play. After the reading from Shakspere, Professor Winter will read a portion of "Artemus Ward's Lecture." Members of the University only will be admitted...
...cleverly sketched caricature of the lesser gods at the Office. The centre piece is frowsy. The other drawings are not remarkable. To repeat a criticism made last year, I would advise the Lampoon artists to study the technique of the black and white work in such French comic papers as "Frou-Frou" and "Le Rire...
...Ernest Lawford, as Malvolio, accented the comic side of the role far more than the pathetic or grotesque, but carried out his interpretation with taste and distinction...
...general the the play was wellstaged with careful elaboration of detail and many of the comic effects were admirably executed. The cast, though large, was well handled, and the smoothness of the action showed the result of much careful training...