Word: stage
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following articles: "The Song of the Sea," by H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06; "An International Affair," by E. B. Sheldon '08; "Guests," by R. J. Walsh '07; "Mr. Dooley on the Social Question," by H. B. Webster '05; "Two Sorrows"; "Menkara," by C. R. Comstock '08; "On the Old Stage Road," by B. Powers...
...written when a student and had recently discovered among some old manuscripts. An itinerant actor named Striese undertakes to present the play, and rehearsals are well under way, when Mrs. Gollwitz and Paula unexpectedly return to town. Mrs. Gollwitz is very shrewish and strongly opposed to the stage; hence the professor writes her a note, urging her to prolong her visit, as the maid, Rosa, has left to attend a funeral. But Mrs. Gollwitz arrives just in time to find Rosa reading the note, and detects the professor's deceit...
Before long Paula and Rosa return weeping, followed later by Gollwitz and Neumeister. The play has proved a failure, and Striese soon appears in costume, driven from the stage. Mrs. Gollwitz now learns the truth. Next morning when all are making preparations to leave town, Gross calls and tells of a great success at the theatre the night before. Striese also arrives and assures Gollwitz that through an actor's presence of mind in substituting another play for the last two acts, the audience went away enthusiastic. Mrs. Gollwitz is appeased and Gross reconciled to Emil...
...dealing with the first and least violent stage of the Russian socialistic movement, which, of all political events of the nineteenth century is most closely connected with the French Revolution of 1848, Professor Milyoukov explained the theories and influence of three great leaders of that period--Herzen, the powerful writer and deep thinker, his impulsive friend Bakoonin, and the novelist Tourguenev. Herzen, an aristocrat by birth, but later a "repentant nobleman," ashamed of his own high position, maintained the attitude of the early nihilists. He sympathized with those independents who could not take for their own the worn out moralities...
...performance of Regnard's "Les Folies Amoureuses" was given by the Cercle Francais last night in Brattle Hall. The work of the cast as a whole compared favorably with that of last year's play, and two of the parts were acted with almost professional skill and address. The stage setting is a great advance over anything that has yet been attempted by the Cercle...