Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...auspices and for the benefit of the German department. They are given through the courtesy of Mr. Conried of the German theatre in New York, and are attracting no little attention. The first play to be presented is Minna von Barnhelm; the second will be from a modern playwright...
...MILK WHITE FLAG.- The presentation of anything from the pen of America's popular playwright, Chas. Hoyt, not only calls out a large and expectant audience, but it is an event eagerly looked forward to by amusement lovers all over America. At the Park Theatre, beginning Monday evening, Feb. 1, his greatest success, "A Milk White Flag," which is claimed to be a departure from his previous efforts, will be presented. Mr. Hoyt does not claim it as a comedy, a farce, or an opera. He only announces it in his usual modest way: "A musical entertainment...
...fault in the work of Moliere, and of the school to which he was trained, that after the characters and the main theme of the play were worked out, the piece was then brought to a close by the first device which occurred to the mind of the playwright, such as the finding of a letter or of a long lost relative. Little regard was paid to the logical outcome of characters or situations; still less to poetic justice. In this point Fielding really improved his model, according to modern notions...
Clyde Fitch, Amherst '86, the playwright, will coach the Amherst seniors for their play, to be given during commencement week...
...short fiction of the number, "The Story of a Story," by Brander Matthews, is perhaps the most entertaining as well as the most original that has come from the pen of this gifted playwright for some time. Another good story is "Was It an Exceptional Case?" by Miss Matt Crim, which bears in certain features of theme and plot a striking resemblance to Mr. Howells' story. "+++n Imperative Duty...