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...given last night in Brattle Hall. Considerable credit is due H. B. Stanton '00 and his assistants who have taken a crude, old fashioned play, cut it down, and remodelled it into something fit for the modern stage. But more remodelling and curtailing might have further improved the performance. Throughout the first and second acts there was a tedious succession of long monologues and one-sided conversations in which the speakers, as a rule, overacted their parts. Meanwhile the rest of the cast stood inactive and apparently inattentive...
...frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving for effect. "The Point of View," by J. G. Cole sC., is a pleasant sketch of a not very ingenious sort. The plot is conventional and the characters are common place. The writer shows an extensive acquaintance with Boston "taverns," and some slight knowledge of girls...
...played a rather difficult part with a great deal of credit. His manner was necessarily extravagant, but he was inclined to overdo his part and to rant. F. W. Morrison '00 played the part of a peasant girl with much spirit, and kept in complete harmony with his character throughout. He delivered a difficult soliloquy with excellent effect, and was uniform in his drollness...
Reserved seat tickets for the Harvard-Princeton Debate in Sanders Theatre, Dec. 15, will be on sale beginning today at 9 a. m., at Thurston's, Herrick's, and Hotel Touraine. The price of tickets will be fifty cents. Throughout today a special section of seats will be reserved at Thurston's for members of each class debating society. After 6 p. m. on Friday, the remaining tickets may be obtained only at the door...
...Yale Club of New York will give a dinner tonight at Sherry's in honor of President Hadley. Invitations have been sent to prominent Yale men throughout the country, and among the speakers will be Judge Howland and Hon. Chauncey M. Depew...