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Accessions made to the Gray and Randall collections of engravings in the Fogg Museum are now on exhibition in the table cases, and in cases 19 and 20 on the wall in the print room. Works of the following engravers are shown: Baldini-Batticelli group, Stefano della Bella, Antonio Canal, Albrecht Durer, Hendrik Goltzius, Mare-Antonio, Jean Morin, Rembrandt, Martin Schongauer, J. M. W. Turner, an unknown Italian artist of sixteenth century, and Michael Wolgemut. The exhibition includes also the "Liber Veritatis" of Claude Lorrain, engraved by Richard Earlom; and engravings after Turner, bound in five volumes, with Roger...
...follows: In Cambridge, at the Hasty Pudding Club Theatre--Graduates' Night, Friday, April 26, Saturday, April 27 and Monday, April 29. In Boston, at Copley Hall--Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 2, 3 and 4. The provisional cast is: King of Cantalusia, J. R. Miller. Count Marcana della Croca, his prime minister, F. R. DuBois. Nitro, chief of conspirators, H. Lyman. Kenyon Clark, his secretary, C. H. Whitney. Pat Sokum, Mike Sikkum, Sergeants of Police, -- R. Dexter. A Lunatic, R. E. Goodwin. His Keeper, I. W. Kendall. Trivia della Croca, the Counts' daughter, J. G. Forbes. Miss Ellany, her governess...
...scene of the first act is laid in Villabossia, the capital of Cantalusia, a mythical but by no means ideal kingdom. It is governed by an incapable king under the control of a tyrannous "Boss," Count della Croca; it is patrolled by a corrupt police force, and terrorized by a band of ruthless anarchists. These conspirators, incensed by one of the king's proclamations, decide to put an end to him. The assassin is chosen by lot, and turns out to be Nitro, the leader of the band. Meanwhile Della Croca, while attempting to coerce his daughter, Trivia, into...
...second act finds the conspirators in their underground lair, engaged in manufacturing dynamite bombs. They are interrupted in their work by a visit from Della Croca and his peace force. With infinite resource they disguise the true significance of their occupation, and finally get rid of the unwelcome visitors. At this point, a person whom they suppose to be the king, but who is in reality an escaped lunatic, enters the dungeon. When they have recovered from their surprise, they seize him, load him with chains and prepare to carry...
...third act, the conspirators, disguised as mountebanks, have reached the borders of the kingdom. They are busy practicing their assumed craft, when the country-folk break in upon them and clamour for a performance. The Dynamiters comply to the best of their ability. During the performance, Della Croca, as a reporter, enters and discovers his daughter with the conspirators. At a signal from him, the police rush in, closely followed by the king and the populace. Trivia is recovered by her father, and the identity of the supposed king is made clear, to the dismay of the Dynamiters, who themselves...