Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which was brought out by means of a ladle of water. The story is well told. "Un Roi de France" and "The Hoss-Thief" are tales of murder and sudden death. In the first, one does not fully sympathize with Pierre in his heroic calm while the flames of the burning building licked his feet. But "then mercifully, he fainted," which, of course, makes his end less horrible. The story of the "hoss-thief" is told thirty years afterward with appropriate scenic effects...
...graduate committee of the Dramatic Club has selected four one-act plays for production this spring. They are: "Death and the Dicers," a mystery play adapted from Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale," by F. Schenck '09; "Five in the Morning," a tragedy in verse, depicting present-day life, by H. Hagedorn '07, and an unnamed western comedy by the same author; and finally an Irish farce suggested by an incident in one of Charles Lever's Novels, by L. Hatch...
...gave up an active career as a lieutenant in the German army to devote himself to literary pursuits. He is already recognized as a leading critic and essayist on art and literature, and has written a number of poems, the most notable of which is a dramatic poem, "The Death of Narcissus...
...Cave"; Scherzo from the music to Shakspere's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Symphony No. 3, in A minor, "Scotch." Part II.--Scheinpflug: Overture to a comedy of Shakspere (with use of an old English melody of the sixteenth century), for full orchestra, op. 15; Wagner: Prelude and "Love Death" from "Tristan and Isolde...
...Cave"; Scherzo from the music to Shakspere's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Symphony No. 3, in A minor "Scotch." Part II. Scheinpflug, Overture to a Comedy of Shakspere (with use of an old English melody of the sixteenth century), for full orchestra, op. 15; Wagner, Prelude and "Love Death" from "Tristan and Isolde...