Word: scene
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Oceano Nox, from les Rayons et les ombres; Une legende d'Aix-la-Chapelle, from le Rhin; A des oiseaux envoles, from les Voix interieures; Saison des semailles: le soir, from Chansons des rues et des bois; Premiere recontre du Christ avecle tombeau, from la Legende des siecles; first scene of Act II, from Marion Delorme; Booz endormi, from la Legende des siecles; Mr. Robert Dupouey, Sever...
...works, said: "The willingness to be satisfied with the wrong word, the wrong color, is the sign of an inferior author. A brilliant writer is the last one who can afford to be false or fatuous." He read several extracts from different works of Stevenson, including the dueling scene between the brothers in "The Master of Ballantrae," and characterized Stevenson as the writer of "the burning-glass style." He admitted that several of Stevenson's best scenes were from borrowed ideas, but said: "Originality does not lie with the man who does the thing first, but with...
Burnt through the mist that shrouds the wildering scene...
...both performances. In the afternoon, the outdoor stage at the south end of the quadrangle back of Sever Hall, was lighted by the sun that slanted through the trees around it, and the green of the leaves and all the exquisitely natural arrangements of the stage touched the whole scene with illusion of some glade in the forest of Arden. One became oblivious after a time even to the occasional rattle of a wagon or sound of a voice outside that alone broke the stillness of the theatre...
...Miss Matthison repeated her success of the afternoon in a part as different from that of "Rosalind" as could well be found in comedy. That the latter was better suited to her there can be little doubt; yet the courage and naturalness with which she carried through the stormy scene with her supposed husband has seldom been equalled. Even more striking was the depth and purity of her voice, which, without apparent effort, easily reached the entire audience. In her lines, as in Mr. Greet's, the rhythm of the words was retained without undue prominence of metre,--a rare...