Word: acting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston Community Players will sent three one-act plays and a solo performance in the Peabody Playhouse for the Friday program of their third season. The only public performance will take only public performance will take on December 30 at 8.15 o'clock, though on December 29 a special performance will be given before the Women's City Club, for which no tickets will be on sale. The Peabody Playhouse, at which the performances will be staged, situated at 357 Charles street, Boston. The first of the plays that is on the program is "How Con Cragan Willed Himself...
...Clod," by Lewis Beach, is the of the second of the one-act plays. This play will have its first presentation in Boston at this time, although it was one of the most successful of the Washington Square plays. John Pratt Whitman the producer and Thelma Tapley a charge of the scenery...
...good act is a beautiful act," says Mr. Whitman in his "Philosophy of Beauty." This is treading on rather dangerous aesthetic ground since the word Beauty is by Definition (thought not by usage) in its own sphere. The point is best described by the difference between connotation and detonation. Does, for instance, the sight of a beautiful limousine make a man feel pious? Mr. Whitman is inclined to substitute attribute for subject. Even so, the writer has known or heard of few men who come out of aesthetic arguments unscathed...
...following Sophomores have been named to act as watchers at the polls in the second Senior Class elections tomorrow. If any men is unable to be on hand at the time and place given below he must either secure a substitute and report the change to the Nominating Committee at the CRIMSON Building or arrange, with the approval of the Committee, to report at some other hour. A complete and corrected list of the watchers will be published tomorrow...
...reorganization in the Graduate School of Business Administration is planned for the near future with the appointment of D. K. David, now instructor in the school, to act as assistant to Dean W. B. Donham '98. Mr. David will soon move into the offices of the Business School in University 17 and take up his new position...