Word: pit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wakefield the men will sleep under canvas in wall tents formerly used by the militia, and will serve, and to a large extent prepare, their own meals. The details for pit duty will also be taken from the various companies. Captain Shannon will be in complete charge of the encampment...
...Practicality of Joshua Wilkes," by Bruce Carpenter, a really constructive story with a clear outlining of the characters; "The Second Hungarian Rhapsody," by Douglas C. Wendell, well written but thin in plot; and "A Fable of Death," in which L. K. Garrison '19 attempts a form full of pit-falls, into most of which he stumbles. The Advocate used to do better in fiction. W. A. Norris '18 and Robert Cutler '16 contribute the verse. Mr. Norris's two sonnets have some fine sonorous phrases, in the making of which he is sometimes reduced into loosening his grasp...
...time the structure of the Bowl allows the stage to be placed within a short distance of the audience and the defect in orchestration has been corrected by the addition of more violins. The number of pieces in the orchestra will total 102. In addition to this the orchestra pit has been constructed over a hollow wooden structure which acts as a sounding box. Another innovation is a curved screen, in front of the footlights, which will throw the volume of sound to the last row of seats. To insure an unobstructed view of the singers by those...
...direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87 and Dean H. L. Warren of the School of Architecture. The stage is remarkable in that the actors will be almost completely surrounded by the "audience." On the left and right in boxes on the stage will be Elizabethan nobles, while the pit, or what is generally known as the floor, of Sanders Theatre will be occupied by Elizabethan spectators. A strip of "sky" has been painted along the top of Sanders Theatre to render the Elizabethan illusion more perfect, for a theatre of that epoch had no roof above the central portion...
...arrangements, the lighting effects, etc. Charles E. Skinner, of the rhetoric department, who conducts the class in dramatic technique, has general charge of the project, and with Mr. Mann is securing for the playhouse the latest ideas in lighting and scenic effects. The theatre will have its own orchestra pit, seating eight or ten pieces, and its own greenroom and dressing rooms. The productions will be written by the audiences, for the dramatic students will act out their own plays there...