Word: playing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...splendid. Its effect has been and can be one of infinite magnitude. This effect, however, is dependent on the way it is sung. "The Star Spangled Banner" is not a Chanson sans Paroles. Yet it would seem that many American citizens hold this opinion when a band or orchestra play it. The mumbling and lipcontortions which immediately ensue are not conducive to raising the level of one's feelings. Perhaps at no time in her history has our nation so needed all the latent patriotism that exists. Learning the words of our national hymn may be a valuable contribution...
With plot-ingredients enough to make a brilliant little one-act farce, the producers of "His Bridal Night," now playing at Ye Wilbur Theatre, have spread the material at hand through three acts of more or less questionable uproariousness. Success of farce is due largely to the rapidity with which the thing moves, and certainly two or three big scenes, no matter how ludicrous, are not sufficient to keep a laugh-hungry audience busy for a full evening. This deficiency has evidently been noticed by the sponsors of the play, so they have sought to hide it under a copiousness...
Just where the climax of the play itself was, it would be hard to say, but those who were present were well aware when the climax of the evening came--when the Misses Dolly sang "Beware of Pink Pajamas." This number brought much applause and no little interest. But that is the pity of the whole thing. Why could not more musical features have been introduced? If the authors objected to turning their farce into a musical comedy their objections stand in the way of their gaining more laurels. Although mixing categories is an awful danger among dramatists, a hybrid...
...Harvard prize play for this season, "The Year of the Tiger," by K. L. Andrews 2G, will be produced for the first time at the Castle Square Theatre on April 23. "The Year of the Tiger" is based on the Japanese superstition according to which every eighth year is fraught with mystery and laden with evil. It was awarded last fall the prize of $500 offered annually by Mr. John Craig...
This is the sixth play to be produced under Mr. Craig's offer to stage the best play submitted each year by members of Professor Baker's course in dramatic composition. Mr. Craig is engaging a special company for the acting of the play...