Word: stage
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Comedy of Errors," to be given tonight at Brattle Hall by the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon, offers an unusual opportunity for seeing one of the funniest of Elizabethan comedies presented under conditions which practically assure its success. Elaborate costumes, competent stage direction, well selected music, more than ordinary amateur histrionic talent, together with Shakespeare's most uproarious humor, are considerations which render it most probable that this production will come up to the high standard of Delta Upsilon performances...
...spring play, "The Stymie," for the benefit of Union members. Special tickets will be issued from the Union office at a date to be announced later. Tickets are necessary because the play will be presented in the Pi Eta theatre to avoid the extra expense of erecting a stage in the Union...
Owing to unforeseen expense and, further, to the impossibility of closing the Living Room for the length of time necessary to build an adequate stage, the three club shows which were to have been given in the Union will have to be changed. The Hasty Pudding Club has withdrawn entirely, but a performance of the Delta Upsilon and Pi Eta plays will be given at the expense of the Union for the benefit of its members only. Through the courtesy of the Pi Eta Society the Union night of that show will be in the Pi Eta house, on Tuesday...
...believe, however, that those working for international peace and who object to the plan for introducing college men in the army and navy, do not understand the aims and intentions of the government. The desirability of international peace we readily admit, but in the present stage of civilization it is a remote possibility. The probability of internal strife alone makes imperative the maintenance of a large army and navy. The need of men of education and superior intelligence in the rank and file of the army and navy we have explained and emphasized before. But the most important feature...
...humor on its melodramatic touches. To have been told ten years ago that melodrama was on the way to becoming ludicrous would have been sacrilege; yet in this day of self-styled musical comedy the "blood and thunder" is quite the funniest thing we have on our stage--except of course in the "movies" where, fortunately for us, the sinning and the sinned-against are polite enough to allow themselves to be seen but never heard. It is perhaps this speaking out in meeting which makes the stage-acted melodrama of today highly amusing; in any case, it is what...