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...waving listeners under the shed, and a public-address system rigged to a station wagon kept the rest of the ridge informed. A magician performed for the small fry, and Pleaz Mobley, the Eighth District's Republican candidate for Congress, sang the old English ballads that the hillfolk love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Whittledycut | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...Noyes Mrs. Hacket, the mother, Mrs. Burnham Dick Hacket, the son, W. G. Rice '14 Dr. Cameron, the physician, C. C. Kennedy '16 Postmen, villagers, etc. "The Good News." David Rodgers, S. J. Hume '13 Martha Rodgers, Miss Miller Dan Gilbertson, B. A. Searle 1G. "Ygraine of the Hillfolk." Thorvaid, the Viking, J. S. Hume '13 Egil, the boy, his son, P. Peniers '16 Ornulf, the priest, F. A. Tatton '15 Ygraine, Miss Ruth Ahrens Dagny, Ygraine's lower-maid, Miss Constance Flood

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE | 5/6/1913 | See Source »

Although somewhat delayed by a change in the choice of plays, the club is pleased with the way the three one-act pieces selected, "Good News," "The Wedding Dress," and the "Ygraine of the Hillfolk" have lent themselves to the instruction of Mr. Powell, who has been coaching them for the past month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PRODUCTION | 5/2/1913 | See Source »

...life, but the scene is laid in New England, so that the character of the piece contrasts with the work of Mr. Ballard. It is a homely little drama of swift, unforeseen turn, against New England character in some of its strange phases. The third play, "Ygraine of the Hillfolk" by R. E. Rogers '09, is the second drama in verse which the club has acted in its five years of producing Harvard plays. It unfolds a tense Viking tale of wrong suffered, and heroic retribution, woman upon man. The theme is different from that of any play that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PRODUCTION | 5/2/1913 | See Source »

...Noyes Mrs. Hackett, the mother, Mrs. Burnham Dick Hackett, the son, W. G. Rice '14 Dr. Cameron, the physician, C. C. Kennedy '16 Postmen, villagers, etc. "The Good News." David Rodgers, S. J. Hume '13 Martha Rodgers, Miss Miller Dan Gilbertson, B. A. Searle 1G. "Ygrame of the Hillfolk." Thorvald, the Viking, S. J. Hume '13 Egil, the boy, his son, P. Peniers '16 Ornulf, the priest, F. A. Tatton '15 Ygrame, Miss Ruth Ahrens Dagny, Ygrame's lower-maid, Miss Constance Flood

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PRODUCTIONS | 4/26/1913 | See Source »

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