Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston theatre going public may well now kill the fatted calf, since "Pierrot the Prodigal" has returned after an all too long absence, and once again is this jewel of French pantomime to be seen at the Hollis St. Theatre. In an age of such thoroughness of stage production and action as the present, where hardly a thing is left to the imagination of the audience, the reappearance of this play can be nothing but a great stimulant to everyone. Those personal powers of visualizing which have laid dormant in most of us are awakened to splendid things...
...scenery has been especially designed for the play by authorities on the different types of settings, and the color effects have been arranged by an expert on electrical stage lighting. Advice is staging the production has been received from Dr. Hermansson of Cornell, and Mr. W. S. C. Russell, of Springfield, who has travelled widely in Iceland...
Also it is obviously impossible to select a championship team for any section. The game calls for too much physically from its players to make it possible to stage a sufficient number of games to decide a football championship. Players who have put forth all that they could muster against a traditional rival might show up stale against an inferior football team a week later. Certain games call for the supreme effort; others are merely football games to fill in a schedule. --The Outlook...
...coat was counted among the lords of the earth, and if he owned a fast horse he was a very prince of fellows. The ordinary man could make his way then as well as now, but undoubtedly wealth was inclined to monopolize the centre of the stage...
...silly channel steamer with it unreal label of noise, the London house with its utterly unEnglish inhabitants are not made real because in a very reasense they are merely the stage upon which Mr. Powers reels in his drunkenness. We do not complain that this is so. The American farce is an genre as another and we enjoy Mr. Powers...