Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sale, at half-price, at 2 Holyoke street: Fine, large Venetian scene, cherry wood frame; six French photogravures; 25 new volumes modern novels...
Last evening it was announced that the judges of the Camera Club exhibition had awarded first honorable mention to H. Emerson '96 for his scene of a forest in winter. Second honorable mention was awarded to G. P. Baxter, 1G., for a country road view; to Professor de Sumichrast for "The Approach to Roslyn Castle"; to C. P. M. Rumford '97 for "A Mill Race," and to H. Emerson '96 for his sea view. Several photographs of paintings taken in New York by H. Emerson are to be put on exhibition today...
...scenery, designed by L. Pitts '97, has arrived and has been used at the last few rehearsals. The Harvard Square scene, used in the second act, is a remarkably clever piece of work and should make a decided hit among people acquainted with Cambridge. But from an artistic point of view the Nieu Amsterdam public square scene (the first and third acts) is the better of the two. The colors in this scene are bright and the arrangement is graceful and effective...
...costumes, also from designs by Pitts, are the typical Dutch dresses of the period, steeple-crowned hats, baggy coats and breeches for the men, and cap and full dress for the women. In the Harvard Square scene the chorus of students will be dressed in costumes of the present day, treated with a certain amount of poetic license...
...scene of the opera is laid in Florence. The plot hangs on the attempt of Count Giocoso of Pisa to mary one of his daughters, Gioya and Passata, to the Duke de Grabo, who holds a mortgage on the Count's estates. Giocoso is reputed to be very rich, but in reality he is bankrupt. The Duke de Grabo, lured on by visions of a handsome dowry, is exceedingly anxious to win the hand of the beautiful Gioya. She, however, falls in love with Amorello, a handsome page, who finally, after many exciting adventures, by the aid of a fake...