Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only criticism we have to offer is on the music in the Turkish scene. It is wholly inconsistent and contrary to the spirit of the production. The ceremony is already farcical enough without deliberately making absurd horse-play out of it. The directors would have done well to omit the music altogether rather than to drag in songs which cheapen the scene...
...scene est a Paris, dans la maison de M. Jourdain...
...fiction of the number is good, beginning with an excellent piece of work entitled "Love Among Arms." It is an unusual story for a college magazine, the scene being on the Austrian border, and the plot, - for extraordinary as it may be, there is a plot, - is interesting and will worked out. The sketch which follows it is light and trifling, not wholly uninteresting, but of no great merit. And then come the Kodaks, And with one exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready...
...strikingly suggestive of much of the second part of Faust, and as the correspondence took place at the same time Goethe was writing this half it is not at all improbable that he was influenced by these wood-cuts. The most conspicuous coincidence is in regard to the mother scene. Goethe himself when asked where he got his idea said from Plutarch. In the Hypnerotomachia however, there are two wood-cuts, the first showing a rock in which are cut three gates, the inscription over the middle one being "mater amoris," the second showing the meeting of the hero after...
...Ophelia's Dying Scene" from "Hamlet" Miss White had a better chance than in the "Aria" for showing what the human voice can do. Great technical skill is here demanded and she did the work justice...