Word: scenic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offering this week, the St. James has undertaken to do a very difficult thing. Two groat factors in the success of this play in New York were that Lenore Uirich was cast to perfection as the French Canadian girl, and that David Belasco, in his scenery and scenic effects, had left nothing to the imagination. Take away the charm of Lenore Uirich's acting and the perfection of the stage settings, and you are hard put to it to find a substitute. If the theatre-goer is sensible enough not to expect at the St. James the exquisiteness of acting...
Contestants for the competition should bear in mind the limitations of the Hasty Pudding Club performances. It is not advisable to plan complicated scenery, or to suggest scenic effects. The play should be limited to as few acts as the plot permits. Any female roles which are not adaptable to a male cast are to be avoided. No restrictions will be made on the source of the plot, except that archaic or over-fanciful settings are not us acceptable as those of a strictly modern nature...
Separate competitions in each managerial department--business, scenic, musical and acting--will be announced soon. D. M. Oenslager, who taught at Middlebury this summer, will direct the competition for stage design...
...Pride's Crossing, the Alumni Bulletin seized the opportunity to attack the April Recess so convincingly that we almost found ourselves agreeing with the writer. It must be admitted that the weather was bad, and a lot of men were obliged to stay in Cambridge anyway. A limited scenic tour of Virginia and Georgia is hardly an excuse for an entire week utterly wasted,--save for a few professors who, according to the Bulletin, used the time to visit New York and see some of the plays about which they have been reading...
...present type of American stage handicaps both the playwright and the producer", said Mr. Lee Simonson '09, the scenic artist of the Theatre Guild, in an interview for the Crimson. "The introduction of the hydraulic or elevator stage", said Mr. Simonson, "would remedy the present evils. With this arrangement, the entire stage may be lowered into the cellar and a fresh setting let down from above. This eliminates the difficulties and expense of the scene shifting in a play with many scenes. In addition to this advantage, the hydraulic stage enables the producer to et unusual scenic effects...