Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Twenty-eight men are now working as candidates for the annual French play in December, and are being coached daily by Professor Bernard. It has been decided to omit the curtain-raiser. "Les Fourberies de Nerine," by de Banville, and to give merely the main play, "Le Barbier de Seville," by Beau-marchais. It contains nine parts, but the provisional assignments are not yet complete. The special copy of the music, and the prompt book, prepared for the Comedie Francaise, are now being used by Professor Bernard...
...meeting of the Cercle Francais, last night, it was decided to give a curtain raiser, "Lee Fourberies de Nerine," by Theodore de Banville, at the same time with "Le Barbier de Seville," some time next December. Parts for both plays were provisionally assigned and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, F. B. Thomson 1L.; vice-president, E. C. Edson '04; secretary, K. H. Gibson '04: treasurer, W. Field...
...Yale Dramatic Association will this year give another performance of Elizabethan drama. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week Sheridan's "Critic" and Townley's "High Life Below Stairs," a curtain raiser, will be performed at the Hyperion Theatre, New Haven. Several members of the Harvard Faculty have been invited to attend...
Theatricals for next year were decided upon provisionally. The intention at present is to give a one-act modern French farce as a curtain-raiser, to be followed by "Crispin Medecin," a short three-act play, similar in character to the works of Moliere. It may be found in Victor Fournel's collection of seventeenth-century comedies at the French library in Warren House; and also in a volume entitled "Repertoire du Theatre Francais...