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Mascagni's one flash came when he was 26. A prize was offered for a one-act opera and the impoverished teacher, tired of a macaroni diet, worked at white heat for eight days and nights until he had completed Cavalleria Rusticana. On that lusty, full-blooded music he has lived ever since. He conducted it in the U. S. 32 years ago. The visit was notorious. Though his contract called for $4,000 per week, he had constant trouble with his creditors. He ranted at Manhattan's noise, Manhattan's food. He had his biggest tantrum...
...presentation along this line. Such a group among the students could study the stage arts, write plays of their own, and produce an interesting and varied program throughout the year. Then, too, there is a wealth of dramatic literature which would serve their purpose well, short productions and one-act plays, that require little actual trouble beyond the performance of the play itself. There is no great need for elaborate productions and intricate stage settings; the professional stage of Boston can supply that; but there is a dolluite place for such an activity among undergraduates. The students have little chance...
...German Club of Harvard University under the direction of James M. Hawkes, instructor in German, will present Schnitzler's "Der Gruene Kakadu," at the Fine Arts Theatre this evening. This one-act grotesque, which deals with the dramatic period of the outbreak of the French Revolution, is the second of Schnitzler's plays to be presented by the Turmwaechter, the first, "Liebelei," having been given last year in conjunction with the Wellesley German Club. The play is to be presented in addition to the regular Fine Arts program which includes the German film "Herthas Erwachen...
Casts of the four one-act plays which the Dramatic Club will persent are announced. The plays to the given are: "The Reart of the Irishman." "The Horse Thieves," "Five in the Mornings," and "Death and the Dicers...
...Dramatic Club will give four one-act plays in Boston next week: "The Horse Thieves" and "Five in the Morning" by Hermann Hagedorn '07, "The Heart of the Irishman," and "Death and the Dicers." Robert Benchley '13, played Reverend Clinch in "The Horse Thieves" and Teague O'Regan in "The Heart of the Irishman...