Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ninth number of the Advocate is, on the whole, a good one. The stories are light and usually well told. The one giving evidence of most careful finish is "Cupid's Brush," an international episode of which the scene is laid first in the Louvre at Paris; secondly, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The story has considerable snap and comes to an end at the right moment. The conversations are written with spirit...
...first lesson after the mid-years in Latin C., will be the prologue and first scene of Terence's Phormio...
...seeing them must wonder why Americans can complain at the lack of picturesqueness on their continent. But we who are to the manor born are not so easily deceived and know that the charming pictures in the current magazines contain more of the artist's self than of the scene he has pretended to copy...
...conclusion the lecturer showed how the characters who are primarily scene shifters and are continually used to exhibit the ridiculous humours of other people and finally to put them out, themselyes have humours which they continue parading until checked. So it was with Carlo Buffone whose tastes for teasing and good living were both extinguished when Sir Puntarvolo filled up his mouth with hot sealing wax. Mr. Moulton received enthusiastic applause after he had finished, which testified to his success in delighting his audience...
...American comedy in three acts, "Is Marriage a failure?" It is an effective protest against illti-med interference by father-in-law and mother-in-law in the domestic economies of young married life. The comedy abounds in the heartiest kind of fun. The pathos is all in one scene, when Mr. Robson writes a manly letter of farewell to his young wife, whose overdose of father and mother has brought about a senseless and cruel separation. Again Mr. Robson shows his versatility wins "the tribute of a falling tear." Throughout, his treatment of the grave question is characteristic...