Word: upsilon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...distinguished list of revivals of Elizabethan plays, the Delta Upsilon this year adds Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." The production is ambitious and interesting. For one of the first times in this country a setting is shown such as Munich and other German cities have long used for Shakespearean plays. A dark blue cyclrama drop fills the back of the stage. At front as a kind of inner proscenium, or as replacing the tormentors of former days, are doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain...
...consequent re-arrangement of parts at the last moment probably accounts for acting at this first performance more like that of a dress rehearsal. The verse play, however, brings out even in professionals all covert faults of enunciation and intonation. Indistinctness even among the most experienced in the Delta Upsilon cast was marked. Moreover, time has made stale so many of the lines which originally delighted an audience that the comedy must be played fast, with skillful pointing of the lines and some building up by action to make places weak for a modern audience produce their old effect. There...
...Comedy of Errors," to be given tonight at Brattle Hall by the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon, offers an unusual opportunity for seeing one of the funniest of Elizabethan comedies presented under conditions which practically assure its success. Elaborate costumes, competent stage direction, well selected music, more than ordinary amateur histrionic talent, together with Shakespeare's most uproarious humor, are considerations which render it most probable that this production will come up to the high standard of Delta Upsilon performances...
...First public performance of "Comedy of Errors" by Delta Upsilon in Brattle Hall...
...first public performance of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" will be given by the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon in Brattle Hall next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. The performance for graduates only was given last night and the presentation was excellent. The results of the work in the lighting and staging of the production added a touch unique in amateur productions of this country...