Word: stage
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...than months, and perhaps in days. In the beginning, the small Expeditionary force held on to the long line with ever-diminishing numbers but were mercifully relieved in May of 1915 by the first Kitchener division, the Ninth, of which my regiment was a part. This ended the first stage of the war, but the second continued for over a year while we harrowed and wore down the enemy bit by bit, saving our ammunition for Saturday afternoon 'parties...
What caused F. E. P. '18--I have not looked him up for his sake--to admire what I consider the worst comedy that has been seen on a Boston stage for some time I don't know. He calls the dramatization a happy one from Harry Leon Wilson's point of view--I admit it; it makes the story of "Bunker Bean" as it appeared in the Saturday Evening Post seem all the better. But, shades of the Jewett Players and "Arms and the man," where comedy is really being played, what dialogue. Mr. F. E. P. '18 says...
...quite surprised that Mr. F. E. P. '18 did not eulogize the scene where this "most charming in years in Boston ingenue" held the stage alone for almost five minutes while she minced about to the melody of a popular tune on a fifteen-dollar Victoria. Perhaps this was like the porter's scene in Macbeth, to give the audience relief from tension. They were wrought up to the utmost of tensity, wondering what Bunker was packing in his suitcase, and needed relief...
...oldest modern language club in the University, presents as its nineteenth annual play, "Der Hypochonder" ("The Hypochonderiac") in Jordan Hall, this evening at 8 o'clock. "Der Hypochonder" is an exceedingly humorous farcical comedy by Gustav von Moser, the author of "Der Blibliothekar," better known on the American stage as "The Private Secretary," which has already been produced by the Deutscher Verein...
...Columbia Park Boys' Club has a nation-wide reputation among social service workers. It was originally one of many settlement house clubs in San Francisco, but by means of its entertainments, which are both clever and interesting, it has reached the stage where it is self-supporting. The are 45 boys, drawn from the less favored districts of San Francisco, enrolled in its membership, the majority of them being about 14 years old. The club has its own uniform which the members wear in their exhibitions so that there is no individual brilliancy but only the perfection of the whole...