Word: scene
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rather un suggestive title, "A Reconciliation," F. R. Dickinson has contributed a story of life in a Canadian lumber -camp. The setting of the story is well-chosen and the characters are fairly well delineated. The dialect, however, is crude, and the full dramatic possibilities of the final scene are not realized. "The Sea," by a. P. Wadsworth, is an imperfect sketch of a very common place type. In "Uncle Paul," William James, Jr., has strung three incidents, not closely related, into a connected story. "The Hum-Drum Company," by F. R. DuBois, is out of the ordinary...
...quick succession he, Portentous, the school children and Mothere Broomstycke make their appearance. Cavendishe, who has gone to find a judge, returns with Indictmente and the pirate is locked up in the judge's house, preparatory to the trial. Several songs follow, after which there is a love-making scene. Cavendishe becomes furious and orders the arest of the entire party. Cavendishe and Indictmente, left alone, decide to go to Keith...
...second scene is laid at the vaudeville, and the last scene is the trial, which makes a fitting climax to the play...
...moonlight scene which opens the second act is decidedly well executed, and the costumes of the leading characters were elaborate and appropriately pretty. In spite of delays and abrupt transitions the play as a whole is well up to the average of undergraduate theatricals...
...Schleiter '01. Ismenia, daughter to Bellides, W. C. Arensberg '00. Aminta, her cousin, R. I. Lee '02. Florimel, daughter to Julio, and supposed daughter to Franio, H. W. French '01. Gillian, wife to Franio, J. P. Sanborn '00. Cupid, Frank Macy. Lords, gallants, servants, rustic dancers, nymphs and shepherds. Scene--Toledo and the neighboring country...