Word: light
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This year he is interpreting "Troilus and Cressida" in a new light, and is using many ultra-modern staging devices. The Gordon Craige screen method is to be used, and brilliancy will be afforded by strong floods of light instead of by paint and tinsel. Much of the action of the piece will take place on the apron of the stage, thus eliminating long and tedious intermissions...
...second prize of $500 and another of $300 for that design which is a public choice. Votes of visitors to the exhibitions will betaken to determine the latter. These exhibitions will be held in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. For the best poster on the advantages of electric light, heat, and power submitted by an art student, the society will award $200, and another $200 will be divided into prizes for the five best designs submitted by high school pupils...
...explain to her companion that "Stuart Walker wrote one of these plays and Clyde Fitch wrote 'Gammer Gurton's Needle.'" The fact that Clyde Fitch was not born until some two hundred years after the writing of the comedy did not seem to count. But the conversation brings to light several interesting facts about the actual authorship of the play, generally attributed to John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and formerly resident master of arts at Christ's College. However, there is no conclusive evidence of John Still's authorship, and the farce, "made by Mr. S., master...
...Smith quadrangle will be decorated with lanterns and banners, and all students who have rooms facing on the quadrangle are urged to light their lights at dark. A supper will be served at 6 o'clock. After the evening concert there will be dancing in the common room and dining hall of Smith Hall...
...more important diplomatic notes. It is planned to keep the official documents separate from the others except in the case of the volume devoted to military organization and colonial policy. Here will be included such portions of Mr. Root's reports as Secretary of War as throw light on these subjects. The titles of the volumes now in press are as follows: "International Law and Foreign Relations," "Government, Administration, and Legal Procedure," "Central and South America and the United States," "Military Organization and Colonial Policy," "The North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration," and "Political, Historical, and Commemorative Addresses...