Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fiske as Mary Page gives a character study which for minuteness of excellence could not be equalled on our stage. It is the interest in the character of Mary which carries the play to its very strong final acts...
...elapsed, and the Toronto players, realizing that it might be the only score of the game exerted every effort to tally, moving their outer defence well up toward the Harvard goal and shooting for the cage at every opportunity. It was largely Gardner's sterling playing at this stage of the game that prevented the visitors from registering a score...
...Union is lacking in the accommodations found in a regular theatre, every effort will be made to provide for the comfort of both the spectators and the actors. The production will be presented as well as possible, some limitations naturally being imposed by the lack of proper facilities. A stage will be especially constructed, the usual from of scenery will be used, and in all ways the production will be made as professional as possible. It is not expected that any serious inconveniences will arise, or that the performance will differ in any essential respects from those given elsewhere...
William Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" has been chosen by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity for its fourteenth annual dramatic revival. While the "Comedy of Errors" has been very seldom played and is practically never seen on the modern stage, it remains one of its author's cleverest works. Technically, it is perhaps the neatest of Shakespeare's comedies, for although it does not possess the character development of his later plays the complications of plot are worked out with rare skill...
...from their faces, to discover them unto themselves as genuinely human beings. This task takes her through the better part of four acts, sees her at one point a comedy character, at another serious. The part of Marie is the pivotal part of the play, varied and exacting. Our stage today holds, I think, but one actress capable of justly interpreting the character and that is Miss Rose Stahl. As played yesterday, Marie was little more than a speaker of words. Any other than a good play must have failed through such gross misinterpretation--or rather non-interpretation...