Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clock the four grand stands were completely filled, and hundreds were standing around the low fence that surrounded the field. The scene was brilliant with the colors of the two colleges. The betting just before the game began was five to four in favor of Pennsylvania...
...SAFFORD, Leader.MERMAID CLUB. - Meeting this evening in 35 Hastings at 9.30 sharp. Members will kindly bring "Roister Doister," Ibsen's "Ghosts," and Webster's "Vittoria Corombona." The trial scene (Act III, Sc. 1) of "Vittoria" and the last act of "Ghosts" will be read...
...Class Day Conspiracy," written by A. Tassin '92, is to be acted tonight as a curtain raiser to Keenan's benefit at the Grand Opera House. The scene of Tassin's play is a Holworthy room, and the plot is a story of Class Day. Tassin takes the leading part...
...Roman theatre, it is probable that the scenery did not extend to the top of the permanent back wall. Accordingly, the scenery which Mr. O. B. Story designed reaches only to the base line of the gallery above the stage, leaving this and the inscription over it visible. The scene represents the fronts of three houses in a street in Athens, and is the same throughout the entire play. It is excellently designed and executed; but if possible, even greater success has been achieved in the painting on the curtain...
...curtain in the Roman theatre was not raised at the beginning of a play, but fell into a sort of box under the stage. A similar plan has been followed in Sanders, where the curtain which has been made falls on the Roman principle. The scene painted upon it is a copy of the famous relief in the British Museum in which the god of the theatre, Dionysus, comes with his train to supper with a dramatic poet. The whole forms an admirable work...