Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scene of the first and third acts of the play is laid in the polar regions and gives an opportunity for effective stage settings, including icebergs, snow huts, reindeer, the aurora borealis and the midnight sun. The scene of the second act is laid at the Sheepshead Bay race track, a parody on Sheepshead...
...scene of the play is laid in the apartments of the young couple. They have been married two years and Mittelbach has become meek and subservient to the Senator's wishes. He feigns that he is near a state of nervous collapse and accordingly his doctor prescribes a journey for his health. Much to Mittelbach's discomfiture, the Senator decides that he will go also...
...college chum, who wishes an interview with the Senator in behalf of Miss Petzoldt, with whom the Senator's son Oscar is in love, much against the will of his parents. Gehring incidentally opens Agathe's eyes to her real duty toward her husband. In an amusing scene between Gehring and Stephanie, who is secretly in love with him, Gehring discovers that he loves her; but fears trouble from the Senator, who is unfriendly toward...
...beginning, with a miniature portrait of the heroine on the frontispiece, to the triumphant end. Its story, opening in the wild Indian country near the great lakes, is developed in colonial Boston during the early days of the Revolution. The great men of the day appear upon the scene, though he author has been singularly temperate in the parts which they are made to play. A love story of no great power runs through the book, but the most striking features depend upon the number and the depravity of the villains, the great mortality among the characters and the stage...
...spirited tribute to the officers and men who "met their death so merrily" at the naval disaster of Samoa in 1889. To be sure the poem loses some force from the fact that in reality the "Trenton" sank in shoal water, so that the "merry" death scene is not historical; but there is much virtue in poetic license. The number also includes "A Song," by W.S. Archibald, and two "College Kodaks...