Word: queen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cast: Leander, a soldier hero, S. Baird '03 Bruno, the village innkeeper, P. D. Lamson '05 Galump, the gizzard of Goz, W. S. Parker '06 Flossie, a poor flower-girl, A. M. Scully '05 Duchess Tryphosa Monstressa, the King's ward, L. Harrison '07 Stellarina, queen of the fairies, R. N. Baldwin...
...Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan, and the scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once the tide had turned, each new mistake of the Court augmented the public exasperation; and, after the fall of the Bastile, the infuriated mob, breaking into the palace of Versailles, attempted the murder of the queen, and drove...
...artists, and the tableaux, by undergraduates, were enthusiastically received. Mr. Conried then recited "Das Verschleirte Bild zu Sais" and "Die Kraniche des Ibykus." His rendering was both artistic and keenly appreciative. The last number, the third act of Mary Stuart, was a disappointing anti-climax. The character of Queen Elizabeth was played in an intensely unsympathetic manner and the entire act showed the folly of taking a few incomplete scenes from a perfect whole...
...third act of "Maria Stuart" brings together Mary and Queen Elizabeth. When finally they meet in Fotheringay Park, Mary at first pleads submissively for freedom, but on being refused, reviles the haughty Queen to her utmost. Shortly after the meeting an attempt is made to assassinate Elizabeth, instigated, it is supposed, by Mary...
...King, M.A., of the University of London, will give a Shakespearean recital this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union. The program will be as follows: Buckingham's Farewell, "Henry VIII," Act 2, Scene 1; Description of Queen Mab, "Romeo and Juliet," Act 1, Scene 4; Clarence's Dream, "Richard III," Act 1, Scene 4; "The Jackdaw of Rheims," R. H. Barham; "Prince," Harriett Childe-Pemberton; Before the battle of Agincourt, "Henry V," Act 4, Scene 3; Orations of Brutus and Antony, "Julius Caesar," Act 3, Scene...