Word: scene
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second performance of Hamlet in Sanders Theatre last night surpassed that of the night before. All the players, including Mr. Robertson himself, were manifestly more at ease on the hitherto unfamiliar Elizabethan stage, and the acting was more confident and sure. After the first scene of the third act, and at the end of the play, the appplause was long and enthusiastic, continuing after the last act until Mr. Robertson responded with a brief speech in front of the curtain. Then a flash light photograph was taken of Mr. Robertson and his company on the stage, and the knot...
...Forbes Robertson and his company will sail from New York for Southampton on Saturday, April 9, on the "Vadeland." In May Mr. Robertson and Miss Gertrude Elliott will appear in a play called "On the Edge of the Storm." The scene is in India, just before the outbreak of the Sepoy mutiny...
...outward world, but of the emotions and passions of a human soul. The agitated opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...
...prologue introduces Simeon Boodle, an Idaho rancher, who, upon announcing his purpose of becoming rich and influential, promptly falls asleep in front of his ranch-house and dreams the events set forth in the two acts. The scene of these is laid at White Isle, a fashionable summer resort, where Boodle, now an opulent United States senator, takes his family for the summer. Here he gradually loses most of his money, but gains control of his hitherto ruling half, and sees his daughter finally married to the man who really loves her. After many amusing complications and minor love affairs...
Contrary to the prevalent incorrect ideas about the indication of a scene by a placard saying "This is a town," there were elaborate ornamentations and effective scenic devices in the later Elizabethan theatres...