Word: acting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Dramatic Club announces its first competition for one-act plays to close Monday, January 10. The club intends giving each month during the winter a short one-act play to be acted and staged entirely by students of the University who are not already members of the club. Its purpose is to give men an opportunity for practice in acting and stage-managing in preparation for the spring production. All manuscripts should be sent to G. S. Deming '10, Holworthy...
...theatre is once considered on the same level with the university as an institution which aims to develop the more perfect man, the solution of the problem is not so difficult. Mr. MacKaye suggested that the present universities act as trustees to receive private endowments for a new type of theatre. Immediately with the guarantee of such a respected institution, the endowment of a theatre would cease to be precarious. In addition he suggested that the public endow state and city theatres for the public good, to be administered like state universities and city colleges. Thus he believes that...
...uncertainty as to its valor. The elaborateness of the stage devices necessary for the performance, the peculiarly subtle nature of the transition from the broad comedy of the opening to the idealistic tragedy of the close, the very beauty of the lines in the long speeches of the last act, all made the undertaking a hazardous one for both company and playwright...
...first act, there was great uncertainty as to the success of the place. The mechanics of the supernaturalism were imperfectly worked, and the utmost good-will was necessary in order to obtain more than momentary illusion. Yet the audience, if puzzled, was clearly interested and, for the most part, sympathetic. The second act showed substantial improvement. The actors were more at home in their parts, the lines were read better, and the wit of the dialogue more frequently crossed the footlights. The gradual rise in tone, the gaining of the serious upon the comic element, which...
...more important roles, that of Dickon, in the hands of T. M. Spelman '13, came nearest to complete success, especially in the middle acts. Savery '11, as the Scarecrow, was uneven, but did so well in spots that one may expect a much higher degree of effectiveness in later performances. E. a. C. Layman's face was not meant by nature for that of a Puritan justice; and, in spite of occasional good passages, his mirthful geniality of expression persisted in belying the character he had assumed. Miss Gragg rendered the varying and not entirely convincing moods of the heroine...