Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tenth annual performance the Deutscher Verein has selected a comedy entitled "Der Steckbrief: ein Lustspiel in drei Aufzuegen," by Roderick Benedix. The scene of the play is laid in a German village on the Rhine...
...himself into the cast. To this the speaker demurs saying there is no one left to take the part. The citizen's wife, who has joined him by this time, suggests that Ralph, their apprentice, act it, and to this the players agree. While he is dressing, the first scene of the regular play is acted...
Ralph appears in the next scene as a grocer, Don Quixote, the Knight of the Burning Pestle. His master, the citizen, who directs his performance, furnishes him with various wonderful adventures, in all of which he comes to grief. He attempts to assist Humphrey in his love affairs, but is also unsuccessful in that respect, as Jasper wins Luce by having himself carried as dead to Venturewell, by whom he is immediately sent to his daughter's apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When...
...scene of the play is laid in Madrid, Spain. The characters, with one or two exceptions, are American summer tourists, who happen to meet in Madrid. The principal of the comedy is Percy Winterbottom, a Harvard undergraduate. The music, which is entirely original, has been composed in imitation of Spanish music. There will be several characteristic Spanish dances, and the whole score is calculated to give much of the necessary local color to the comedy...
...Society will present this year, as its annual play, an originai musical comedy in two acts, entitled "The Financier." The scene of the first act is laid in a New York hotel, and the scene of the second act in a broker's office in the same city. The book and lyrics are by H. H. Hemingway '08 and L. W. Pritchett '08, and the music by R. J. DeGolyer...