Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whose boundless hospitality is shamefully abused. He is particularly beset by two so-called friends, who use his house as their own for selfish ends, the one to provide his daily food and lodgings, the other to secure a husband for his daughter. Interwoven with the main plot are the adventures of Marmaduke's god-son, Alfred Wemyss, who has got himself entangled in a love affair with the wife of a fiery Mexican, Don Guzman. The play is in three acts. The scenes, three in number, are laid in San Francisco, at the present...
...joint play of the two junior societies, D. K. E. and Psi U., will be given some time during the spring term, and if the consent of the Faculty is given, there will be two productions of the piece. The name of the play is "Mr. Bonaparte," and the plot is a burlesque on Napoleon First, in his Russian campaign. The cast will be made up of the following men: Butter-worth, Hooker, Lee, Cooper, Taylor, H. W. Harris, and Driggs, '95; Lackland, Sage, Eagle and Curtis...
...Pudding Club this spring. The libretto is being written by W. Ames '95 and the music by D. G. Mason '95. R. L. Whitman '95, the chorister of the club, is now training the chorus, and the principals are being coached by W. Ames '95. The cast and the plot have not yet been announced. The first act is already completed. Mr. Frank Blair will coach the cast as he did last year...
...joint work of Brander Matthews and George Jessop and is numbered among the most legitimate of Mr. Goodwin's successes, and it is rarely that a more pleasing comedy is presented. It is at once clean, wholesome, pathetic and merry, without a dull scene in it. The plot is well sustained throughout, and culminates joyously, enlisting the fine sympathies of one's nature and sends the audience away with a sense of keen and clean delight. "In Mizzoura" is well known, having been produced more recently than "The Gold Mine," and those who remember Mr. Goodwin's superb impersonation...
...works produced with great success, particularly on the Pacific coast, where she is a more conspicuous figure in literary and art circles than in the East. Mrs. Pacheco believes she has provided Miss Coghlan with a part that is essentially suited to her brilliant comedy and emotional capabilities. The plot is described as being of intense interest, at no time involved and intricate, but treating of men and women in Russian, French and English society. It is a play of today, the atmosphere of fashionable life permeating every scene. In addition to "Princess Walanoff," Miss Coghlan will also revive "Diplomacy...