Word: mise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire her. A square out side the Palace with steps upon steps mounting the depth of the stage, the bearded emperor high on his throne, mandarins in their gaudiest best, eight wise men with their silken scrolls, are mise en scene for Turandot, cold, disdainful, asking her riddles, and, steps below, the unknown prince, prompted by love, guessing right. Then Palace Garden on a summer night - Turandot, icy still, unwilling to abide by the terms of her own contract, awakened by a kiss. The steps to the throne again...
Imperial Welcome. At Peking numerous imposing floral arches were hastily erected. Scampering coolies strewed the way toward these arches and the squares at which they stood with symbolically dyed golden sand. Proudly riding to meet one another at the focus of this gold-strewn floral mise en scène came the great Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang...
...Mise en Scene. When they emerged, the King had exchanged his military garb for robes of state, "the ermine, the purple, and the crown." The Queen of course wore her imposing State Crown, topped by a blazing Maltese Cross of diamonds. A diamond stomacher twinkled on the jet black gown which she had donned in mourning for Queen Alexandra. Close beside the throne stood the Marquis of Salisbury, holding the great Sword of State. Since the Prince of Wales was unable to appear on account of his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8), his brother, the Duke of York, took...
...With new mise en scènes for Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, an improved chorus, a company of famed conductors including Fritz Busch, Michael Balling, Dr. Karl Muck (in 1906-8, 1912-18, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Willibald Kahler, the annual Bayreuth Festival, it was announced last week, will begin on July...
...following is the final cast: Orgon William Graves 21. Cleante J. T. Lodge '25 Damis H. D. Merian '27 Valere Ernest Iselin Jr, '26 Tartuffe J. R. Robinson '25 M. Loyal Richard Waldron lL. Un Exempt A. T. Merian '25 Madame Pernelle Mise Rebecca Williams Elmire Mise Mary Vinton Murray Mariane Miss Helen Grew Dorine Miss Ethel Thayer Flipote Miss Mary Otis