Word: erasmus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be informal dancing following both of the performances of the Dramatic Club plays, "Fame and the Poet" and "Erasmus Montanus," to be given in the Pi Eta Theatre on December 9 and 10. Music for the dancing will be furnished by Jefferson and Johnson...
...written by students of the University, and in the future plans to give plays by great European dramatists, of which few have ever been produced before in America. This year the club has chosen two plays, Lord Dunsany's one-act comedy, "Fame and the Poet," and Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus," a comedy translated from the Danish by the late Frederick Schenk '09 and O. J. Campbell. Both plays will be given at each performance...
After a two weeks' competition, the final casts for the Dramatic Club's productions of "Erasmus Montanus" and "Fame and the Poet" has been selected. In the first play B. K. Little '23 has won the title role. As Erasmus, Little will be by far the most important character in the play. Erasmus is a young man who has been educated out of his station, and returns to his humble parents with considerably enlarged conceit. The fall of his pride and his ultimate humbling form the theme of the play...
...other leading parts of those of Peer, an omniscient deacon, whose pretensions to learning afford comic opportunities; Jeppe, the father of Erasmus, whose paternal pride adds a sympathetic touch to the play; Nille, an old peasant woman; and Jacob, a country bumpkin. They are played by V. P. Williamson Unc., D. T. Eaton Unc., Miss Tripp of Radcliffe, and R. H. L. Skinner '22, respectively...
...complete cast of "Erasmus Montanus" follows: Jeppe, D. T. Eaton Unc. Nille, Miss F. Tripp Erasmus, B. K. Little '23 Jacob, R. H. L. Skinner '22 Jeronimous, A. T. Hill '20 Magdelone, Miss J. Webster Lisbed, Miss C. Cole Peer, V. P. Williamson Unc. Jesper, F. C. Packard, Jr., '20 Lieutenant, F. S. Stranahan '21 Niels, D. P. Ferguson...