Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After the curtain-raiser, the audience felt that the Dramatic Club's new policy of producing foreign plays was going to be a success; it was relieved to find that the Club was able to live up to its pre-war standards. But it was not pre pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring...
...reappearance of Hasty Pudding Spring Show posters in the Yard, after a lapse of three years, is one more indication that conditions at Cambridge are slowly swinging back to the normal plane of before the war days. It has been long since the curtain of the Pudding stage has creaked up on a much rouged and closely shaved chorus of pseudo-girls, and since basso-voiced heroines and sotto-voiced prompters have held an undergraduate audience thrilled by the unrehearsed actions of a Pudding cast. "Crowns and Clowns" will be a welcome visitor to the University...
...athletic season is over. The crew has come back from a victorious race against Yale; the University baseball and tennis teams have been humbled by the Elis, and thus the curtain falls on the first year of war-time sport. Looking back over the seasons, the University can hardly rejoice over its record. We have been unfortunate in every sport but rowing and we have plenty of cause for disappointment. But somehow the idea of sport solely for the sake of winning has disappeared; the mania for victory left us at the outbreak...
...Rape of Belgium," once was active in the ten-twenty-thirty arena. Now Mr. Woods presents his plays on a $1.10, $2.20 and $3.30 scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...
...colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that far yet. There is still hope, however, for they are yet rearranging the play...