Word: staging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ROLFE, Stage Man.H. P. C. The spread committee of the H. P. C. will be at 19 Weld, from 1.30 to 2 every day this week to give invitations, etc. to all members desiring to spread...
...professional is a truth which no one can gainsay. Yet it was a rare comfort last evening to find that every member of the large cast really knew what he was talking about. This is a feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate and had some meaning. In the reading of the lines, the ear was very seldom shocked by that false emphasis which is the bane of our stage-that ignoring...
Several years ago the stage of Sanders Theatre was utilized to represent the stage of a Greek theatre in the time of Sophocles. Next Monday evening the Shakspere Club will upon it undertake a task which is second in its difficulty only to the representation of Oedipus Tyrannus. Great labor has been expended upon the stage fittings of the play, and if success is deserved by hard and conscientious work the Shakspere Club need not fear for the success of their great venture. The peculiar formation of the stage in Sanders was found to be a great drawback...
...personate the Senators. The vestal virgins will be personated by some of the smoother faced and more fair-haired sons of Harvard, and cannot, of course, be expected to give perfect satisfaction to the lictors' critical sense of female beauty. Mr. Lawrence Barrett has given valuable advice in the stage directions, and will aid in the management of the representation. While it is not to be expected that the leading roles will be filled in a manner which will compare favorably with the acting of our prominent actors, the play will nevertheless equal in interest representations of a much more...
...club, and a large number of students will assist in the great scenes as Roman senators, citizens, soldiers, etc. Particular attention will be given to historical accuracy in the action of the play, and in the reproduction of the costumes of the time. The only changes made on the stage will be by properties...