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...this was to be the only play presented at Harvard this spring, it would be decidedly praiseworthy, but among the host of others it seems rather unnecessary. Aside from the annual theatricals of several of the social clubs, the Dramatic Club will probably produce three one-act plays, and all aspirants for dramatic honors will have an opportunity to compete for places in them. This club gives all undergraduates a chance to write plays and act in them, and yet as soon as it is well started a rival organization makes its appearance. The result will probably be that instead...
Owing to the short time remaining before the end of the competition for the spring Dramatic Club play the executive committee has decided to include in the competition one-act plays as well as long plays, as already announced. The competition will close February...
...second and last of the public performances of the Cercle Francais plays will be given in Jordan, Hall, Boston, this evening, at 8 o'clock. Besides the three one-act comedies which will be presented, there will be singing between the first and second plays, and ballet dancing between the second and third plays. At the former performances the plays have been executed with great success, and there is every reason to suppose that the final production will be equally as good...
...Invite le Colonel," the first of the three plays, is a one-act comedy. M. Carbonnel has had a flirtation of which his wife learns and for which she decides to punish him. She takes from him the keys of the treasure-box, and, in addition, pretends, than a Colonel Bernard of their acquaintance, has paid court to her and still presses his attentions upon her. By threatening to "invite the Colonel," she silences her husband whenever he seeks to prove his masculine superiority. Colonel Bernard, in the meantime, has become engaged and comes to Paris to celebrate his wedding...
...plays to be presented are Labiche's "J'Invite le Colonel," Banville's "Gringoire," and Dreyfus' "La Gifle," all one-act comedies. There will be a dress rehearsal December 9 at Brattle Hall, Cambridge. The public performances will be given at Jordan Hall, Boston, Wednesday, December 11 and Friday, December 13. Tickets for the performances may be obtained at Thurston's, and from W. G. Roelker, Claverly 1, and in Boston, at Herrick's and at Schoenhof's. The price of seats on the floor is $1.50, and in the balcony...