Word: scene
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Society play this year is a musical comedy in two acts entitled "Inbad in Trinidad." The scene of the first act is laid in the city square in Trinidad. Alonzo, a gaily dressed bullfighter, who has just discovered the treacherous plans of revolutionists, is being congratulated by the citizens. Bob Richardson, a seller of bombs, becomes jealous at Alonzo's success and at the same time falls in love with the bull-fighter's fiancee, Pepita. In the meanwhile Inbad, a sailor, having been disguised as Alonzo, wins the affections of Tina, a cigarette girl. The second act is laid...
...scene of the sketch, which is in one act, is laid on a barren island in the South Atlantic. Robert Chilton, a rich stock broker, has been wrecked on its reefs while cruising in his yacht, the "Rover"; from all the ship's company, the only survivors were Barbara, Chilton's wife, whose father is a Gloucester fisherman, and Jabez, the boatswain. The action of the play is furnished by the struggle between the men for the possession of Barbara...
...scene of "The Witch" is laid in Salem in the year 1692. Joan, a young Portuguese woman comes to Salem and marries Absalom Hawthorn, an avowed witch-hater. She soon finds that she really loves, not Absalom, but his grown-up son, Gabriel. Joan knowing that her own mother possessed supernatural power decides to see if she has inherited it, and wills Absalom dead. He dies immediately, falling at her feet. His old mother Goodwife Abigail, suspects witchery and demands that Joan take the "test of touching." In this test she breaks down and admits that she is a witch...
...Hagedorn found that the conditions in Norway in 1692 and those existing in New England, when the hanging of witches was not altogether uncommon, were so nearly alike, that he changed the scene of the play to Salem. This change was made with the permission of the author...