Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Bocher will explain the subject, characters, principal situations and the mise-en-scene of the play...
...facing the statue. The arrangement would then be, graduates at the end of Memorial Hall with John Harvard at their head, and Seniors facing the statue about to be welcomed into the ranks of the graduates. This, with the other classes arranged as already mentioned, will form the scene from the spectators' point of view...
...horses of the Brattle square engine were being exercised when the alarm was rung in, the fire gained considerable headway before the steamer arrived and the first ho.e was run. As Chief Casey was delayed by an accident to his wagon and did not reach the scene of operations till some time after the two other engines had arrived, there was but little discipline among the firemen and the service inefficient. When work was really begun, however, the fire was quickly controlled and the building was not gutted. The woodwork from the third story up was seriously charred however...
...Elusive Lover," by Virna Woods (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) is a short, interesting love story with a clever plot. The characters are few and almost without exception essential to the plot. The scene is laid in California, in and about Los Angeles...
...Copeland gave a biographical sketch of Sheridan, and read Macaulay's famous description of the scene of the trial of Warren Hastings when Sheridan made one of the most brilliant speeches ever made in English, but the body of the lecture was on his qualities as a play-wright. He was characterized as possessing singular dramatic talent and shining wit, but as lacking the imagination and humanity of Goldsmith...