Word: operetta
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Radcliffe Commemoration of Mrs. Agassiz in December. The centennial of the founding of the Pierian Sodality, March 6, gives occasion for an interesting article by G. F. Evans '05, on the early history of the Sodality; while the twenty-fifth anniversary of the production of the first Harvard operetta, "Dido and Aeneas," played by the Pudding in 1882, draws from Mr. Owen Wister, the Musical Manager, an entertaining account of the occasion. Mr. Lindsay Swift '77 writes on the life of his classmate, Professor Edward Henry Strobel, late Adviser to the King of Siam. A sketch of the career...
...performance of the operetta "Patience" will be given tonight and Saturday night at Jordan Hall, Boston, at 8 o'clock, for the benefit of the Radcliffe College Library. There will be a matinee performance tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock in the same place. Tickets for the performances, at $2.00, $1.50, and $.75, are on sale at Kent's bookstore and at Herrick...
...succeeded by subscriptions and proceeds from plays in swelling the sum to a little over that required. Another fund of $20,000 is in process of raising for the furnishings of the library, of which $5000 has already been raised by subscriptions. It is intended to give an operetta this year as formerly in conjunction with graduates of Radcliffe and Harvard to aid in making up the amount. Last year the operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance," netted over $2000 for the endowment fund...
...Cercle Francais will present this year, as its twentieth annual production, Moliere's "Le Medecin Malgre Lui," as set to music by the famous composer, Gounod. This will be the first operetta ever presented by the society. In addition there will be a short one-act play, entitled "Le Chapeau d'un Orloger," which has been substituted for the play first selected, "Le Bonhomme Jadis," as it is of a more humorous character...
...annual production the Cercle Francais will present in December as an operetta Moliere's play, "Le Medecin Malgre Lui," as set to music by the famous composer, Gounod. This will be the first operetta presented by the society. In addition, there will be a short one-act play by Murger, entitled "Bonhomme Jadis...