Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Band will play at the tea dance to be given in the Living Room of the Union from 4 to 6.30 o'clock today. Tickets for this dance, which is an innovation on the part of the management, may still be obtained at the front office and are priced at 75 cents each. Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell and Mrs. Matthew Luce have consented to act as patronesses. The band, which consists of 30 pieces, was organized this fall and has met with uniform success at all of the dances at which it has played...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will resume its public theatricals tonight when it presents its 19th production, the first since the spring of 1917. The performance which is to be given in the Pi Eta Theatre at 8 o'clock consists of two plays, Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus" and Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet." Lord Dunsany, who is at present visiting the country, is planning to make a special trip to Cambridge to see the play on Wednesday evening...
...Fame and the Poet' has never been staged, having but recently been written, and the Dramatic Club has, therefore, the honor of being its first producers. The scene of this sketch is laid in modern London, and the play contains but three characters, Prattle, an empty-headed and matter-of-fact man about town; De Reves, a poet and dreamer; and Fame, an allegorical figure...
...Erasmus Montanus" an Older Play...
...Erasmus Montanus" is a much older play than the other, and as such is de- pendent for its effect largely upon a vivid portrayal of character. Erasmus, the principal character, is a young man who has been educated out of his station, and returned, priggish and conceited to his humble parents. The fall of his pride and his final humility are the themes around which the play is built. V. P. Williamson Unc., as Peer, who is a pretentious deacon, also plays an important role. Jeppe, Nille, and Jacob, in the parts of rustic country people, take a large share...