Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After the curtain-raiser, the audience felt that the Dramatic Club's new policy of producing foreign plays was going to be a success; it was relieved to find that the Club was able to live up to its pre-war standards. But it was not pre pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring...
...Radcliffe, this evening and tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The play was written last year in English 47, and has since been revised preparatory to this performance. Miss Halman also wrote "Will o' the Wisp," the one-act phantasy which was given with great success as a curtain-raiser in December...
...fifth season the 47 Workshop will produce "Rusted Stock," a four-act play of New England life and influences by Miss Doris Halman, Radcliffe 1G, a member of English 47a. Miss Halman also wrote "Will of the Wisp," the one-act phantasy which was given as a curtain raiser for the first Workshop production of the present year...
Incidental music to accompany the pictures will be furnished by a 32-piece orchestra under the leadership of J. M. Parmelee '19. The orchestra will also play the "Star Spangled Banner" as a curtain-raiser. To the music, speeches, pianologue and movies will be combined the usual beer, ginger ale, pretzels, crackers, cheese and cigarettes to make up a well-rounded entertainment...
...curtain-raiser gives the Workshop producing forces a good opportunity to display their abilities. In the long play Miss Clugston has depicted life in a Southern Indiana town. The play is replete with local color and the author has filled the three acts with much humor...