Word: plot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dress rehearsal of "Boscabello," this year's Pudding play went off successfully yesterday afternoon. Both the book and the music are fully up to the standard of previous performances. There are the usual number of local hits, and the common liberties are taken with the plot. The music throughout is lively and catchy, and many of the numbers are above the average; notably the march which occurs in the first act. This easile takes rank with "Up the Street" and Sousa's marches. The "Toreador" song in the last act reminds one strongly of "Carmen," although this resemblance lessens...
Professor Bocher delivered a lecture on "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" yesterday afternoon. He said that Moliere compounded the plot from two stories that were current in his boyhood. Similar tales were common even as far back as the Sanskrit. The names of the characters are thoseth at Moliere kept on hand, and used in various plays for persons of the same general character: thus Geronte was always a disagreeable...
...Elusive Lover," by Virna Woods (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) is a short, interesting love story with a clever plot. The characters are few and almost without exception essential to the plot. The scene is laid in California, in and about Los Angeles...
...produces a very full and clear impression in a page of remarkably simple almost matter of fact narrative. "To Say the Least: Ungentlemanly," by H. Williams, Jr., is much in the Stockton vein. The off-hand rapidity of the action is most admirably suited to its impossible but amusing plot. "By Two," by F. M. Alger, is as good as it is hard to characterize...
...action of the play centers about the discovery of the concealed child as an off-spring of the line of David, his revelation to the faithful Jews by the High Priest, and the subsequent defeat and death of the queen Athalie. The plot is briefly as follows...