Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...their program, but a college glee club is not intended merely to give public entertainments or dual concerts; it has a distinct function within the College. It should not only sing to the students, but should lead them in singing and serve, as its name implies, to make jovial occasions more jovial...
...play is a jovial dissertation on marriage, its risks, its illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the courtship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty...
...gentleman named Sencer. By clever deceit he won Sir Harry's consent to a union. The Wise-Woman was now sought by Sencer, Luce and Boyster. She promised that Sencer should forestall Gratiana's wedding and that Boyster should marry Luce. The last scene finds everyone at Hogsdon. Chartley, jovial and full of lies, was caught in his own net, and through his discomfiture everyone was made happy, including the inconstant hero, who returned to his first love...
...play might be called a jovial dissertation on marriage, its risks, its illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the court ship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled...
...Opening scene before the Palace of the Maharajah. Opening chorus, "We're the jolly genial subject of a jovial Rajah." Entrance of Vizier and Maharajah (S. Waller '03, W. C. Clark '03). Reception of Ministers. Song by Minister of War (J. S. Seabury '04). "I am an Epicure." Plot to steal cat followed by Princess' entry--solo and chorus "In lonely hours of the dreamy night." Meeting of Prince and Princess. Betrothal. Closing chorus--Maharajah. Ministers. Subjects--"We're off to the lands of Matchoo...