Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Dramatic Club is to be congratulated for its initiative in producing new and untried plays. The chief fault of most college theatricals is that they have a tendency to produces a play that has gained reputation on a professional stage. Trusting on the name of the play, rather than their own Individual presentation to assure them of success," declared Michael Gold the author of "Fiesta", the Dramatic Club's fall production as he turned away from a group congratulating his latest contribution to the dramatic world to give a short interview to a CRIMSON reporter...
Plans for the organization of the Faculty Club are still in a preliminary stage. A meeting of several professors and deans has been held, but no definite arrangements have been made...
...Innocence. Here is Edith Wharton's story of the Countess Olenska, eloquently transferred to the stage by Margaret Ayer Barnes. The Countess Olenska returned to Manhattan, leaving her horrible Count in Europe. In Manhattan she met Newland Archer; they fell in love, but Newland married a girl to whom he was engaged. Newland Archer and the Countess nearly ran away together when the horrible Count crossed the ocean to retrieve her; but Newland's wife was too feeble for the Countess, who was sick of cruelties, to injure; so Countess Olenska returned to her Count and Newland Archer...
...opera was called off on account of rain. It was to be Offenbach's La Belle Helene at the Municipal Theatre and the fire inspector was making his round 15 minutes before curtain time. He tried this exit, examined that extinguisher. He touched a wrong lever and stage rain fell, beat upon the scenery until all was ruined, no performance possible...
...Masks of the Devil. Author Henry James in parentheses, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in asides, made their characters utter their real thoughts during conventional dialog, a device awkward in fiction or on the stage but natural and effective in the many pictures which have contained hints of it. Used here to great extent, the trick adds interest to Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live...