Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whom the senator's son Oscar is in love, much against the will of his parents. Gehring opens the eyes of the young wife, Agathe, to her real duty toward her husband. Agathe's sister, Stephanie, has been in love with Gehring for a long time. After an amusing scene of embarrassing complications, Gehring discovers that he in turn loves Stephanie; but trouble is feared from the senator, who is as much opposed to Gehring as a son-in-law as he is to Miss Petzoldt as a daughter-in-law. After countless misunderstandings between the senator and his wife...
Programme: Schumann, Overture, "Genoveva"; Mozart, Aria, "II Seraglio"; Edward Elgar, Overture, "Cockaigne" (In London Town); A. Thomas, Aria, Mad Scene from Hamlet; Brahms, Symphony...
...ballet, which was given in the entre-acts, opens with a scene showing the coast guard walking his beat. As soon as he has gone by, appear the five Nereides in a dance. They are followed by Amphitrite who, issuing from the sea, throws on the sand an oyster, during a graceful dance. The first part ends with the five Nereides and Amphitrite dancing. In the second part appear the Travelers, who wander along the shore and discover the oyster. The sea nymphs and Amphitrite watch them from the background. The Travelers quarrel over the oyster and are surprised...
...scene of "Les Plaideurs" is laid in Normandy in the early part of the seventeenth century. The play holds up to ridicule people who take petty cases to court, as well as the judges who try the cases. The action of the play turns about the old Judge Dandin, who has become weak minded through a too close application to his profession. His son, Leandre, takes care of him, and to keep him from going to court arranges a trial at home, at which the house dog, who has stolen a capon, serves as culprit...
Seminary of Classical Philology. "On Horatian Glosses in the Corpus Glossariorum." Mr. W. E. Waters.--"On the Relation between the various MSS. of Terence. A New View based on Scene Headings, etc." Mr. J. C. Watson. Harvard...