Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given Saturday evening in Brattle Hall before an appreciative audience. As on Thursday evening, the most successful part of the performance proved to be the ballets. F. W. Morrison '00, as the stupid peasant, was again very pleasing. The third performance will be held in Copley Hall, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The final performance will take place tomorrow evening at the same hour and place...
...Paquier, the servant of Granger, was particularly good both in his acting and in his accent. F. W. Morrison '00, as the peasant Mathieu Gareau, was more in character than any of the other actors, and, with the aid of a droll voice, was well qualified to portray the stupid countryman. Dix and Morrison were the only characters who helped the audience realize that a comedy was being played. A. S. Hills '00, who took the part of Corbineli, was pleasing because he was perfectly at ease. The music and ballets added music to the play...
...whole play centers around Granger. The chief character is Corbineli, who runs the plot, upon whom the whole effect depends, and who is the life and soul of the comedy. Next in importance is Chateaufort, the boaster, who is always trying to ruin some one. Pierre Paquier is the stupid servant who acts as messenger between Granger and Genevote. These three characters are the chief comedians, who turn the play from a tragedy to a comedy...
Yesterday Rattle started out on his wheel to ride to the Riverside Recreation Grounds. But he made the mistake that other stupid people have and went to Norumbega Park. After hunting two hours for the swmming pool, tennis courts and shooting traps he returned, worn out. He says that he is going to try again next Saturday...
...their satisfactory performance of a most distasteful duty. Their success has been a service to Harvard which can hardly be over-estimated. It has accomplished two things. It has shown to the outside world that college sentiment is done, once for all, with mere dissatisfied toleration of such stupid behaviour, even on the part of the most unsophisticated members of the University; and that, in the future, it will handle like offenders without gloves...