Word: news
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first public performance of the spring Dramatic Club plays will be given in the Hasty Pudding Club Theatre this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Three plays will be presented--"The Wedding Dress" by Miss Katharine McDowell Rice, Sp., Radcliffe; "The Good News" by J. F. Ballard uC.; and "Ygraine of the Hill-folf" by R. E. Rogers '09. Prof. G. P. Baker in whose course all of the plays were written, believes that they will be of unusual interest. Mr. Ballard's sketch, in contrast with his other work, is in a serious vein, and "Ygraine of the Hill-folk...
Although somewhat delayed by a change in the choice of plays, the club is pleased with the way the three one-act pieces selected, "Good News," "The Wedding Dress," and the "Ygraine of the Hillfolk" have lent themselves to the instruction of Mr. Powell, who has been coaching them for the past month...
...Good News" by J. F. Ballard '11, author of "Believe Me, Xantippe," which ran eleven weeks at the Castle Square theater this writer, is a play touching upon tense events which arise in the life of a western farmer's household. "The Wedding Dress" by Miss Katherine McDowell Rice, Sp., Radcliffe, also treats of farm life, but the scene is laid in New England, so that the character of the piece contrasts with the work of Mr. Ballard. It is a homely little drama of swift, unforeseen turn, against New England character in some of its strange phases. The third...
...purpose of President Lowell's trip is twofold. To all the people of the Middle West he carries a message of good will and friendship from Harvard. To the Harvard graduates scattered over the country he brings news of the progress, and conditions, and needs of the University. Just at this time when Harvard is developing into a great national university, President Lowell's trip is peculiarly auspicious. Each year has seen an increase in the number of western men at Harvard, especially in the graduate schools. But, unfortunately in many places throughout the West knowledge of life and conditions...
...casts are as follows: "The Wedding Dress." Martha Scott, village dressmaker, Mrs. Noyes Mrs. Hackett, the mother, Mrs. Burnham Dick Hackett, the son, W. G. Rice '14 Dr. Cameron, the physician, C. C. Kennedy '16 Postmen, villagers, etc. "The Good News." David Rodgers, S. J. Hume '13 Martha Rodgers, Miss Miller Dan Gilbertson, B. A. Searle 1G. "Ygrame of the Hillfolk." Thorvald, the Viking, S. J. Hume '13 Egil, the boy, his son, P. Peniers '16 Ornulf, the priest, F. A. Tatton '15 Ygrame, Miss Ruth Ahrens Dagny, Ygrame's lower-maid, Miss Constance Flood