Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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After another act full of similar horse-play, in which the tramps are still more confused about their identity, the curtain rises for the last act upon the same scene as that with which the play began. Jau lies sleeping on the grass where Schluck finds him. Jau still thinks that he is the prince and orders Schluck to bring him some champagne. Schluck refuses and they are still quarreling when the hunters come out with the prince and Karl at their head. The party stops, the prince tells the men they have dreamed, throws them a purse and rides...
Theatricals for next year were decided upon provisionally. The intention at present is to give a one-act modern French farce as a curtain-raiser, to be followed by "Crispin Medecin," a short three-act play, similar in character to the works of Moliere. It may be found in Victor Fournel's collection of seventeenth-century comedies at the French library in Warren House; and also in a volume entitled "Repertoire du Theatre Francais...