Word: staging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wilson and his supporters have earned a high and well deserved re putation for their work in this comedy, Last night the stage effects were excellent and the costumes were especially effective and true to the scenes which they represented. The chorus was strong, as usual. The scars of the evening were of course Mr. Wilson himself who made some capital hits and played his part to perfection, and Marie Jansen whose fascinating manner took extremely well with the audience. The story of the "Oolah" itself is amusing and well worked up in every detail...
...second half began at 4.03, Fall River tried playing a kicking game, and succeeded in keeping the ball away from their goal for a time. S. Borden was injured at this stage of the game and Hill took his place. Finally Frothingham caught the ball in the middle of the field, and making the prettiest rush of the afternoon scored a touchdown at 4.16, from which he kicked a goal. Score 36-0. Fall River again punted; Broughton secured the ball, and in two rushes brought in near the line; Davis found a hole at 4.19, and scored; score...
...accomplish its purpose. College athletics have been slowly but surely assuming the character of professionalism-have, in other words, been gradually assuming a position which they have no right to occupy. It certainly would be far better that they should be abolished than that they should ever reach this stage. Just as soon as college games demand the active participation of graduates, just as soon, that is, as graduates return to college solely for athletics, just so soon intercollegiate contests have ceased to have a purpose. It is to preclude the possibility of this danger that the present action...
...leading article in the Century for November is the first part of the Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson. As might be expected it is extremely interesting, containing, besides a sketch of his remarkable career on the stage, many anecdotes of Power, Wallack, Macready, and in fact all the great American actors of the last half century. The first of the Present Day Papers is written by William Chauncy Langdon, the subject being "The Problems of Modern Society." Seven of the most sociological critics of America have formed a group for the purpose of discussing social problems, in a series of essays...
...This certainly they can never do unless it is understood that the privileges of athletic contests are granted to them first of all. If athletic games should develop into exhibitions for the eye of the world alone it would be better that they had been abolished, having passed the stage of their full usefulness...