Word: stage
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first aim of the comedian is to amuse; the audience is to be pleased. The stage is not true life, and the artist must exaggerate those parts which he may wish to emphasize. In another way, the stage differs from real life. An actor need never feel. Emotion should always be ruled by intellect. It is never necessary to experience what one acts. It is art that conveys the impression of reality to the audience, not feeling...
...began with the narration and then the performance of the adventures of the god by a chorus of satyrs, who danced and sang rude songs. Soon the subject broadened into other fields and the dramatic element increased at the expense of the choral element. But the conservation of the stage and perhaps of the priests of Dionysus preserved in the satyr play an interesting memorial of earlier days. Each tragic poet presented at the feast of the patron-god four plays; the last of these was the satyr play, which was really neither tragedy nor comedy, but a tragedy...
...Holmes '02, as Charles the elder brother, acted his part with considerable feeling, and C. F. C. Areusberg '01 played well in the more difficult role of the younger brother, Eustaco. H. W. Taggart '01, as the cook, was natural in an inconspicuous part. The costuming and stage setting were good...
...stage setting is entirely adequate, and the hall of Brisac, H. C. De Long '03, whose two sons, Charles and Eustace, C. F. C. Arensberg '01, are seeking Angelina's hand, is very well presented. The wedding dance, which is somewhat forcibly introduced into the second act, is pleasing in its general effect, but is crudely executed...
...committee in charge have brought this movement to the stage of having their petition heard before two important committees of the legislature. There remains to insure the practical progress of this great improvement the engineering plans and estimates which can be secured only by a special commission appointed for the purpose. Some people, however, may have the impression that a somewhat similar investigation was made in certain hearings held before the Harbor and Land Commission in 1894, but since the present project is so radically different from the one then considered, and since so many and important changes have taken...