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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last performance of the Dramatic Club play, "The Mission of the Dammed," will be given in Copley Hall, Boston, tonight at 8.15 o'clock. An informal dance will be given after the play...
...Criticize a play by making fun of the people who see it may be a trifle unfair, yet "Somebody's Luggage" is of a weight so nicely fitted to the shoulders of its audience that we may be pardoned for the roundabout method. Those who go to such a play desire neither the delicacy of an English comedy, nor what we often have in a French one, a hinting at things not said. They want and they get a typical American force, a Kaleidoscopic series of incidents (the plot foreseen from the first) built around the ability of the leading...
...pity that there should be included in every play that even touches on an English household the pitiable and ridiculous figure of the love-sick slavey. There must be growing up a professional caste of those who from mother and daughter take this role. It is perhaps why such passable ability of that of Miss Bryton is in this case wasted. Also the hero (we call Mr. Powers the buffoon) rushes through his sentences with rapidity which we may only explain by assuming that he knows their worthlessness and superfluity. There used to be a tradition of a certain American...
...Dramatic club play, "The Mission of the Dammed." Hasty Pudding Theatre...
...Dramatic Club will give the first performance of "The Mission of the Dammed," in the Hasty Pudding Theatre, Holyoke street, this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The play was written by Miss Mary M. Wright, Radcliffe 2G, of Lewiston, N. Y., a student of Professor Baker's English 47a, and was chosen from a large number by Professor Baker and Walter Prichard Eaton '00. The club has continued this year the practice of amateur production and acting...