Word: playing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hasty Pudding Club received yesterday morning a letter, which the police attribute to the Black Hand or to some socialistic club, threatening the Club if it attempts to produce its spring play "Crowns and Clowns" now being rehearsed. The latter, which is written in words and letters clipped from newspapers, reads as follows...
...production of this new show calls to mind the last spring play that was to have been given, but which never appeared. Just as "Barnum Was Right" was ready for an expectant public the war broke--and to the last scene shifter and chorus man the company entered the service. Of the four officers of the club who signed the notice of the withdrawal of the show, two were killed and two were wounded. Of the chorus six were killed and as many more were wounded and gassed. This record is no greater than that of any other portion...
...when the Harvard Dramatic Club produces a play, it may do so only by accepting the kindness of a private club in allowing it to use a stage. It has no home which it can call its own; its scenery and properties after a production either become lost for want of room to keep them, or they must be crowded into the already desperately crowded 47 Workshop Room in Massachusetts Hall. Despite this, the Club has been able to do what no other University Dramatic Club has done,--successfully to write, stage, and act its own plays, in productions that...
There is more to the play than the obvious moral; that true sorrow takes refuge not outwardly but inwardly, and that death is faced in but one way by going on with our daily life and habits. The swinging of the door that gives entrance to the voice of the son, though we see no body; the way in which the voice moves about the room,--we are convinced by it all until the voice begins to tell how he died and mentions life after death. In that instant the picture is man made; we feel it to be mere...
Four Colleges to Play Annually...