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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Members of the Dramatic Club will take part in "The Spirit of Poland," a play for Polish relief, in Jordan Hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The play is in five acts, written by Miss Dorothea Murray Hughes, a Radcliffe graduate, is given in aid of the Polish children, and the proceeds will go to the Sienkiewicz fund, and will be cabled at once to Poland, where they will be distributed by the agents of the Polish relief committee. It is being given under the auspices of the "Friends of Poland" of which Mme. Szumowska Adamowska is president...
...scene of the play is laid in Poland during 1914 and 1915, when the Russian armies were retreating across the country. It deals with the rivalry of Tadeusz Bolski, an American of Polish descent, and Sasha Polivanof, a Russian recruiting officer, for the hand of Vanda, a beautiful Polish girl. It shows the destruction wrought by the retreating armies, and the aid rendered the people by the American Relief Committee, for which Tadeusz is the agent...
...Joan the Woman," a photo-play founded on the life of "that good maid whom Englishmen burned at Rouen," was presented last night for the first time in Boston with Mme. Farrar in the title role. The prima donna herself was in a box. Her appearance was made the occasion for one of those curious scenes now inseparable from Mme. Farrar's public visits to her native city. When she entered the box, house and orchestra rose simultaneously and faced her, the conductor waved his baton like an acolyte offering incense, and the band played "My Country Tis of Thee...
...Medley of Heirs," the annual Pi Eta Show, will be performed in Jordan Hall, Boston, on Thursday evening of this week. Another performance will be given in Cambridge on Friday, and the following night the play will be produced in the town hall at Andover. Tickets may be obtained at Herrick...
...second public performance of "A Medley of Heirs," the Pi Eta Show, will be given at Jordan Hall, Boston, on Thursday evening. The company will give another performance in Cambridge on Friday, and the following night the play will be produced in the Town Hall at Andover. Tickets for the Boston performance may be obtained at Herriok's in Boston and seats for the Cambridge production have been placed on sale at both the Co-operative Branch and Amee Brothers...