Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accepted and produced by Mr. Wilson Barrett. In 1884 Mr. Jones wrote the first of the series of plays of modern English life with which he has since become so closely identified. This play, "Saints and Sinners," brought up the propriety of dealing with religious matters on the stage and provoked a great deal of criticism. Other famous plays of Mr. Jones's are "The Liars," "The Physician," and "Mrs. Dane's Defence...
...conclusion is irresistible that not until, through Faculty or Student Council intervention, an end is put to the present scattering of talent and enormous waste of time, will Harvard be worthily represented on the college stage...
...only from secondary schools whose course is approved by the College. An "approved" course must extend over four years; and must concern itself mainly with languages, science, mathematics and history; none of these four subjects may be omitted, and at least two of them must be carried to the stage now required by the "advanced" examinations of Harvard College...
This prize is open to undergraduates of Harvard College and of Radeliffe College, and, under limitations, to graduates of both. In addition to the prize of $250, Mr. John Craig, lessee and manager of the castle Square Theatre, gives a promise to stage the play for a week, within one year of its acceptance. If Mr., Craig decided to continue the run he will pay a royalty to the successful author for every week after the first. Plays are judged by the standard of fitness for actual dramatic production...
...died suddenly on Saturday morning at the Boston Relief hospital. He was born in Charlestown, September 22, 1851, and was graduated from the College with the class of 1874. Mr. Riddle began his public career as a reader of Shakspere, but in 1875 he turned to the stage. During the spring of 1876 he acted in New York with Edwin Booth. In the celebrated production of Sophocles' Oedipus in 1881, given in the original Greek by members of the University, he took the part of Oedipus. Of late years Mr. Riddle confined himself to writing for magazines and to giving...