Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stage, but actors and chorus stood on the same level. The stage buildings were at first merely rough structures in which the actors could change their dress, but they were much elaborated later, and a screen was put up before them called the "Proscenion," on which was painted the scene appropriate to the play...
...Barnes of New York.A crowded house greeted the first appearance of the dramatization of Mr. Gunter's celebrated novel "Mr. Barnes of New York." The play differs in very few respects from the book, although several of the tableau scenes are naturally stronger in the play than in the book, notably the "vendelta" scene of the last act. Mr. Robert Hilliard took the part of Mr. Barnes easily and naturally, and shared the honors with Miss Emily Righ who, as Marina Paoli, was an ideal Corsican, strong in love and hate. The other characters were well sustained...
...this hall, and the pleasure of hearing them is on this account seriously marred. Taking this into consideration the production of "tOello" may be said to have been a success. Mme. Albani was at her best, and carried off the honors of the evening; her singing in the first scene of the last act aroused great enthusiasm. Sig. Tamagno was not heard at his best; nevertheless he made a very favorable impression, and his appearances during the remainder of the engagement will be watched for with great interest. The supporting company is a strong one; the work of the chorus...
...power. The fine acoustics of Sanders helped to overcome this defect. On the whole Miss Stewart was not up to the average of symphony soloists. She was most successful in the Mad Song from "Hamlet" which displayed the powers of her voice to best advantage. The music of this "Scene," however, is hardly up to the level of Shakespeare. The set of Persian Love Songs by Rubinstein would have had a better effect in a smaller auditorium. Weber's "Freischuetz" overture made a fitting end and climax to the evening's music. Here the orchestra was again effective and vigorous...
...represents a mountainous district with much variety and detail of structure and form, including two lofty gathering basins, where the snow is accumulated and converted into ice, and from which two unequal ice streams creep down, becoming confluent in a single valley further on. The various features of the scene are reproduced with great faithfulness, from the bergschrunds at the foot of the snow slides, to the seracs, crevasses, dirt bands, and moraines, the latter being tinted according to the rocks from which they are derived. Below the foot of the glacier, there are several abandoned moraines, one of which...