Word: plot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Though slight in plot, "A Single Man" very easily takes rank with the best of Mr. Drew's "drawing-room plays"--a form of entertainment in which he has long held first place on our stage and which promises to remain popular so long as Mr. Drew finds parts to his liking. Without him Mr. Davies's comedy could hope for little; with him, and a carefully selected cast, it is highly amusing and altogether worth while. In the supporting company are Miss Mary Boland, Miss Thais Lawton, late of the New Theatre company, and Miss Carrol McComas...
...Ralph Roister Doister" marks the combination of classical and native elements in the English drama. The play follows the "Miles Gloriosus", of Plautus, but interprets the characters in the vein of Elizabethan comedy. The plot of the story centres about a town gallant who is made to believe that he is in love with a fascinating young widow. The climax comes with his disillusionment...
...play is somewhat different from Mr. Sheldon's former work. The scene is laid in Coney Island, and the plot deals with a rich young New Yorker who hires himself out as a pianist in a side show. He falls in love with the Princess Zim-Zim and the rest of the play revolves about their love story. Aside from the plot, the play is interesting chiefly as a vivid picture of Coney Island life...
...Deutscher Verein will give the second and last production of its fifteenth annual play, "Der Unglaeubige Thomas," in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a farce comedy of three acts, and is laid in a city of modern Germany, the plot turning upon Ignatz Doell and his experiences while supposedly under the influence of hypnotism. Tickets at $1.50, $1, 75 cents, and 50 cents may be obtained at the door, the branch store of the Co-operative Society, Amee's and Kent's bookstore...
...scenes of the play are laid in a modern city in Germany at the present time, and the plot of the comedy turns upon the supposed hypnotizing of Ignaz Doell by his nephew. The uncle consistently acts the part of one hypnotized, but is finally forced to give up his role of an irresponsible hypnotic subject and he again becomes Ignaz Doell...