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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enthusiastic to say that seldom, if ever, has there been such uniformly good acting in a Dramatic Club performance. There was scarcely a jarring note in all the five acts. The massing of characters on the stage was easily managed, the exits and entrances smooth and logical--there was never an awkward moment. The danger, from the actor's point of view, lay in over acting. Those who remember plays of this sort in Germany, recall the heavy buffoonery and ridiculous capers of the characters; the plays were reduced to the merest and broadest farce, with the comedy values obscured...
...Fame and the Poet' has never been staged, having but recently been written, and the Dramatic Club has, therefore, the honor of being its first producers. The scene of this sketch is laid in modern London, and the play contains but three characters, Prattle, an empty-headed and matter-of-fact man about town; De Reves, a poet and dreamer; and Fame, an allegorical figure...
...that was less than a year ago. Today they are relatively in a stronger position than ever before. Not only have men who served with the colors come back to them; they have attracted thousands of boys who never had thought of going to college, but whose eyes were opened by the things colleges and college men did in that great struggle...
...that Shantung, the cradle of Cathayan civilization, has stayed put as Chinese--and stood pat against alien intrusion, I will add--since time immemorial; and Chinese will it ever be without need of capturing, let alone d'Annunzio and his army. Academically put, the political sovereignty of Shantung is never in question. FREDERIC...
...Never has the University had an opportunity to meet personally and informally so many prominent actors and actresses of the stage of today as will be tonight assembled in the State Armory. Movieland has sent William S. Hart and June Caprice as its representatives, while the vaudeville stage has contributed many others of prominence...