Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...comic opera in first class style. The proscenium arch is a large one, being 22 feet high by 26 feet wide. The stage and mechanical contrivances have been built, under the direction of Mr. E. E. Rose, by Parker and Malloney of the Hollis Street Theatre. Every detail in modern stage construction has been carefully attended...
...gridiron, fly-galleries, prompt box, and electrical devices of the modern theatre are complete. There are one hundred electric lights in the foot and border lines of the stage, and as many more on the chandeliers of the auditorium, all of which are operated from the big switchboard on the stage. The curtain and automatic fire sprinklers which protect the scenery will be put in this week. The total cost of the theatre and furnishings is about...
...Modern Language Conference. Notes on Giles Fletcher's "Russe Commonwealth." Mr. Leo. Wiener.- The Sources of Shelley's "Queen Mab." Mr. A. E. Hancock.- Reports. Sever...
...Modern Language Conference. Notes on Giles Fletcher's "Russe Commonwealth." Mr. Leo. Wiener.- The Sources of Shelley's "Queen Mab." Mr. A. E. Hancock.- Reports. Sever...
Several attempts at fables cover the first few pages of this issue. Only two deserve notice. "The Wise Man," by R. P. Utter, is good, but one wishes its tone were otherwise. The dialogue is well done and the topic decidedly modern. The best of the other attempts is "The Mongol and the Chinaman," by Albert Dwight Sheffield. After reading all these essays, however, one sees a reason for the quotation which heads the collection: "For the term fable is not very easy to define rigorously." Two efforts at versifying, the first "To a Guinevere" having no excuse for being...