Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the issue is a half story, half sketch, by Austin Smith, entitled "Moontide." The scene of the events narrated is Boston and its surroundings, the Harvard Bridge and the Charles River, and the very familiarity of the background breeds not a contempt but a pleasure. The sketch-for it is, perhaps, more of a sketch than a story-gives in a few pages a delineation, at once life-like and pleasurable, an architect, poverty-stricken, aristocratic, and fairly intellectual, and of a concomitant fellow-being.- a governess,- with whom the architect eventually falls...
...written by R. H. Post '91. It will be followed by the main piece of the evening, the "Obispah," the music of which has been composed by R. W. Atkinson '91, and L. S. Thompson '92, and the libretto written by B. A. Gould '91. Tomorrow evening Act II, Scene 2, from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" will be put on as a curtain lifter in place of "Two Old Grads...
...Tuesday evening the bill will be changed only in the curtain raiser, when Act II, Scene 2 of Shakespeare...
...performances of the Hasty Pudding Club in New York were extremely successful. On Friday evening and Saturday afternoon "Two Old Grads" was given with the larger play "The Obispah," and on Saturday evening the smaller farce was replaced by a scene from "Twelfth Night." The performances were well attended, and enthusiastically received...
...spectacular attraction of the week is at the Globe. The "Still Alarm" is a play built on one scene which introduces a fire engine and a pair of handsome horses. Mr. Mansfield will present "Beau Brummell" there next week...