Word: comical
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Copeland will give his sixth reading from "The Wits and Humorists" this evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11. The selections will be taken from the works of Mark Twain, representing American literature; and from Owen Seaman, editor of the English comic paper "Punch;" Barry Paine, and Jerome K. Jerome, representing English literature...
After the barbaric war dance of the opening chorus, the first hit was made by W. G. Means '06, as "Bang Bang", who sustained spirited comic action in both his songs and lines, although his voice failed at times to carry. S. D. Preston '06, is "Hustler, the Wanderer", sang "New York's the Place" and "When I Started Out" with engaging ease and jauntiness of manner, and showed considerable range in "Let's Sew" and "Back, get Back", in Act II. On several occasions the orchestra was a little too loud for the voices of the principals...
...annual theatrical production of the Fi Eta Society, to be presented during April, is an original comic opera entitled "The Girl and the Chauffeur." The book is by J. Dignowity, Jr., '06, and the music by T. Davison, Jr., '06. The production will be coached under the direction of N. H. White '95, and R. Risley '06 will be undergraduate manager...
...unless physicians are summoned. There is safety in numbers thinks the old man, and four doctors answer his call--pure figures of burlesque, and a little bitter burlesque, for Moliere had small faith in the pretentious practitioners of his time. They are portentously solemn, self-important, foolish and comic. It is the fifth physician who replaces them (no other than the disguised Clitandre) who works an expeditious cure. This short farce is all prose, all travesty, and all a thing to be acted in the liveliest and broadest fashion...
...five days after Louis XIV ordered it written. It is called by the author "un petit impromptu," but is delightful in its variety and dash. Unlike many classics, it depends for success largely on the acting. The fifteen parts are short and brisk, and seven of them are very comic, especially those of the doctors who are made to caricature so vividly the ignorance and charlatanism of the profession at that date. With "L'Amour Medecin," may be given Rostand's "Les Romanesques...