Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play to be given some time next fall. The committee recommend every man wishing to act, to read the play this summer, and if possible master thoroughly the particular part he intends to try for. A modern play in one act may also be given as a short curtain raiser...
...Triangle Club, Princeton's dramatic association, has been rehearsing daily the two plays which will be presented this year. "The Tiger Lily," a short farce, will be used as a curtain raiser. The other, "Lend Me Five Shillings," is a comedy by John Madison Morton, and deals with society life in the early part of the present century...
Next week the company will present a double bill-"Marriage by Lantern" and "Pagliacci." The first, the curtain raiser, by Offenbach, is a merry bit of comic opera with parts for four principals. The second opera, by Leoncavallo, is more widely known. Both will be produced with entirely new scenery and costumes...
...Miss Fitzgerald, these capable players: Thomas Burns, S. Miller Kent, George chaeffer, Charles W. Butler, E. Soldene Powell, Frances Stevens, Stella Zanoni, Maggie Holloway Fisher, Jane Stetson, Maggie Fielding and Clara Baker Rust. "The Man Upstairs," by Augustus Thomas, a one-act play, will be presented as a curtain raiser...
...Class Day Conspiracy," written by A. Tassin '92, is to be acted tonight as a curtain raiser to Keenan's benefit at the Grand Opera House. The scene of Tassin's play is a Holworthy room, and the plot is a story of Class Day. Tassin takes the leading part...