Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Graduates' Night performance of "The Catnippers" was given at the Hasty Pudding Club Theatre on Saturday evening. The merit of the opera lies chiefly in the music and in the stage-settings. The plot is not elaborate, and the characters are little developed. On this account not many individual roles are made notable. The most prominent character and the most amusing actions are found in the Maharajah, played by W. C. Clark '03. S. Waller '03, as the Vizier, has a part which is consistently grotesque...
...weeks, and it now seems certain that by Graduates' Night, a week from Friday, the Society will have perfected on of the best plays it has yet produced. The book and lyrics are by P. L. Coonley '03, the author of "Queen Philippine," the play given last year. The plot, which is laid in India, has many ingenious situations for which the peculiar superstitions of that country in regard to the preservation of the idols of Buddha give foundation. The music by A. w. Denison '03, has the spirit, and liveliness that was the chief characteristic of the "Queen Philippine...
...plot of "The Catnippers" is centered around the Magical Cat of the Rao of Matchoo and the attempts of his hated rival the Maharajah to obtain...
...hand of his daughter, the beautiful Princess. Unfortunately the son of the Rao, who being in love with the Princess has come to the court in disguise, hears of this scheme and meeting with two Boston fakirs, Bill and Harry, obtains their services to assist him in a counter-plot to secure the cat for himself and thus obtain the Princess. They easily outwit the vizier and the ministers, secure the Cat and return to the Maharajah's court just before the arrival of the crestfallen ministers, who have brought the two guards of the shrine, whom they supposed dead...
...Opening scene before the Palace of the Maharajah. Opening chorus, "We're the jolly genial subject of a jovial Rajah." Entrance of Vizier and Maharajah (S. Waller '03, W. C. Clark '03). Reception of Ministers. Song by Minister of War (J. S. Seabury '04). "I am an Epicure." Plot to steal cat followed by Princess' entry--solo and chorus "In lonely hours of the dreamy night." Meeting of Prince and Princess. Betrothal. Closing chorus--Maharajah. Ministers. Subjects--"We're off to the lands of Matchoo...