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...comedies, that the authors were using the same tricks, the same jokes, as are common in our vaudeville, burlesque, and musical shows. Business which we associate with Chaplin, Jolson, Tinney, Bobby Clark, Fannie Brice, and the Four Marx Brothers, was invented by the Harlequins and Sganarellos of the Venetian comedy; subjects which are treated in full page advertisements today, were touched off in light repartee on the trestles and boards of Italy two and a half centuries ago. All I have done, in many instances, is translation putting down the current slang instead of the forgotten expressions...
...Abramson '29 Prince G. K. Bishop '27 Creonta L. H. Ennis '28 Leander R. L. Jones '30 Harlequin G. B. Bingham '28 H. Dotmore R. C. Darling '29 Sgnarello K. A. Perry '28 King Edward Massey '15 Stranger D. W. Moreland '28 Captain G. S. Lowenstein First Venetian Abbot Perterson Jr. '30 Second Venetian P. C. Sherbert '30 Third Venetian Charles Leatherbee '20 Soldier, Gambler G. W. Harrington '30 Doctor Pierrot E. T. Bradley '29 Ambassador D. L. Dickson '27 Dancer William Wilson '15 Princess, Flaminia Mary Caperton Queen Margaret Effinger Clarice Helen Field Violetta Mary Leonard Isabella Rhodita Edwards...
...theatre all bear names for the patrons' convenience in making appoint ments. They are the Elizabethan Room (containing porcelain heads in hair dresses from the time of Queen Elizabeth to now), Peacock Promenade, Chinoiserie (women's smoking rooms), Club Room, Hunting Room, Jade Room, Powder Box, Venetian Room, Marie An toinette Room, Colonial Room, Empire Room and Music Room. The auditorium, simulating French Renaissance architecture, is dec orated in ivory, rose-red and turquoise blue. Some 38 years ago, the Atlantic washed onto the shores of the U. S. an entirely insignificant underfed boy of 16. In those...
...Abramson '29 Prince Kent Smith '29 Creonta L. H. Ennis '28 Leander R. H. Jones '30 Harlequin Barry Bingham '28 H. Dottore R. C. Darling '29 Sganerello K. A. Perry '28 King G. K. Bishop '27 Stranger D. W. Moreland '28 Captain G. S. Loewenstein '28 First Venetian Abbott Peterson Jr. '30 Second Venetian Charles Leatherbee '29 Third Venetian P. C. Sherbert '30 Soldier, Gambler R. N. Bennett '28 Priest G. W. Harrington '30 Ambassador D. L. Dickson '27 Princess Mary Caperton Fata M. Margaret Effinger Clarice Helen Field Violetta Mary Leonard...
...sort of relapse. Nothing is more difficult to do well than Italian comedies of the eighteenth century. And in selecting Carlo Goldini's "The Liar," the Dramatic Club failed to realize that the Anglo-Saxon audiences to which it played could not easily catch the spirit of the gay Venetian. Goldini is not done now--even by the most artistically advanced of professionals; for an amateur organization he is almost impossible...