Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor L. Wiener of the Slavic Deartment and Professor Richard Ordynski, who is coaching the spring production of the Dramatic Club, which will be presented this evening, will speak before the Drama League in Huntington Hall, Boston, this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Professor Wiener will lecture on the Russian drama and Tchekoff, and Professor Ordynski will speak on the artistic theatre...
...plays deserve support. They are amateur only in the fact that the club members stage, manage and act the plays without compensation. As examples of the modern drama, written and produced by students of it, they are much better dramatic investments than the conventional two-dollar play, of the modern box-office school. If they had lurid play bills to herald their coming; and a record of 300 nights on Broadway behind them, the theatre sheep would flock to see them and pronounce them capital...
...three plays were chosen from among forty submitted by graduates and undergraduates of Harvard and Radcliffe. That the representatives of the latter institution were successful is but another indictment of Harvard apathy in the face of the best opportunities. When Harvard men take more interest in good drama, the plays presented by the Dramatic Club will be of masculine manufacture; but not till then. The plays are produced by Dr. Ordynski, a celebrated producer. What ever the attendance may be, they will be a success...
This production is the eighteenth old English play that the Delta Upsilon has revived. "The Beaux' Stratagem," written in 1706, is the best of the plays that Farquhar has left us, and is one of the liveliest comedies of the whole Restoration drama. The scene is laid in the old Litchfield Inn, where two London gentlemen arrive one night in search of a fortune, the one disguised as a servant to the other. Aimwell, the master, goes to church, and promptly falls in love with a woman in the congregation. His friend, Archer, finding out that the woman...
...Cyrano de Bergerac," a four-act drama of Gascony in the seventeenth century will be presented at the Colonial Theatre this afternoon, for the Belgian Relief and Unemployed Funds. The production is under the direction of Mr. Edward Vroom, who directed the Shakespeare performances given for the Belgian Relief Fund at the Hollis Theatre last December. The cast of seventy-five includes the following University men: R. S. K. Irvin '18, W. H. Russell '18, A. Shortt '17, E. C. Wilkins '16, E. F. Woodruff '16, W. A. Williams '15, R. W. Hoskier '18, C. G. Paulding...