Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these pieces, once "The Pierian" was clear of the nervousness that broke "The Saracens" into fragments, the orchestra played as it has never played before. Mr. Clapp's tone-poem is written exactingly in the ultra-modern German idiom. Rimsky-Korsakoff's symphony is not exactly music for amateurs. Yet the amateurs of the society played both pieces with the accuracy that was borne of ease with their music, and full understanding of it, with hardly a technical blunder or slip, with none that was so obvious as to vex and distract its hearers. Never before has "The Pierian...
...only. The subjects are selected from the fields of Economics, Government, and Modern History. Any student who has taken advanced courses in these fields will find among the subjects at least one which has been brought to his attention. On the basis of the essay thus written, and of the general record of the candidate, the Scholarship will be assigned for 1912-13. Candidates are expected to leave with the Chairman of the Department of Economics, not later than the day of the examination, a statement of their college record, including a memorandum concerning theses and other written work done...
Third came "Alaric Jourdan's House," and the name of Mr. Townsend is the one the scout of New York would no double quickly note. For in this little play he has written splendidly, his speeches are brief, colloquial, each furthers the action there is not a false or jarring note in all the tragic story. As this piece was far and away the best of the evening--if not the best the club has ever produced--so the acting in it was immeasurably superior to that which preceded and followed. Miss Gragg, as the wife, was strong and convincing...
...Spelman '13, president of the Dramatic Club, has written the music for a pantomime ballet, entitled "Snowdrop, or the Princess and the Maiden", which will be produced by the Junior League of Brooklyn at the Heights Casino, Brooklyn, N. Y., on Thursday. The piece is a wordless fairy play in four acts. An excellent cast has for some time been rehearsing under the direction of Mr. F. L. Short, for a number of years coach of the Yale Dramatic Club. Scenery and costumes have been especially designed for the production, the latter being by J. G. Hamilton, of New York...
...plot concerns the discovery of an unknown who has written a lampoon against the emperor of Austria. The minister of police suspects a certain Armand, but can obtain no evidence because Armand has destroyed all extant examples of his handwriting. Armand loves the ladies, so the minister sets a score of them to cajole him into writing a letter, but all their wiles are in vain, till suddenly the minister's niece appears. She agrees to try the task, but is not told why, hence she innocently lures him to his social ruin. In the last act he is enlightened...