Word: scene
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class Boat Races are scheduled for this afternoon. Time was when this event was the occasion of the gayest scene of the year along the Boston river front; in those days each class hired some kind of a craft which was suitably decorated, on which the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Though the races are today shorn of some of their external glory their real value remains. They are still a part of the broadening tendency toward general athletics...
Madame Marie Sundelius, soprano, will be the soloist; the following program will be rendered. Symphony in C minor, No. 5, Op. 67, Beethoven Overture to the Opera, "The Barber of Bagdad," Cornelius Recitative, "E Susanna non vien?" and Aria, "Dove Sono," from "Le Nozze di Figaro," (Act III, Scene 8), Mozart "L'Apprenti Sorcier" ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"): Scherzo (after a Ballad by Goethe). Dukas Aria, "Je dis que rien ne m'eponvante," from "Carmen", Bizet Caprice on Spanish Themes, Op. 34, Rimsky-Korsakoff
Humperdinck, Act II, scene 2, from "Haensel und Gretel...
...play, in contrast to his farcical "Let's Get Married" which the club presented in the fall, is written in serious vein. The plot hinges upon the struggle of a woman's "almost atrophied will with events that demand forceful direction." "The Bank Account" is a drama of modern scene depicting the destruction of an office drudge's hopes by his wife's financial mismanagement. "The Fourflushers," the only comedy of the three deals with a domestic situation of humorous complexity...
...Legend of Loravia," is a two-act musical comedy written by J. K. Hodges '14, and E. Streeter '14. The plot centers in the mythical land of Loravia, a mountainous principality of Europe, and depicts the struggle for the throne between the twin princes Louis and Ferdinand. The scene of the first act is laid in the Grand Salon of the Pre Catalan restaurant in Paris; and the second act is staged at an inn outside of Rontevest, the capital of Loravia. The features of the play are the lyrics, which are more closely connected with the plot than those...