Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play opens with a prologue, but the speaker is interrupted by a citizen, who leaps onto the stage and demands that the actors introduce a citizen into the cast. The citizen's wife, who has joined him, suggests that Ralph, the apprentice, take the part. While Ralph is dressing, the first act, including a rather conventional love-story between Jasper Merrythought and Luce Venturewell is acted. In the second act, Ralph appears dressed as the Knight of the Burning Pestle, and, at the frequent interruptions of the citizen, goes through many stirring adventures, in all of which he comes...
Before discussing his main topic, however, Mr. Bryan emphasized the importance of public speaking today. He said that he believed it to be the duty of every citizen to train himself to think clearly and to speak accurately on the questions of the day and that for this reason public speaking is of the utmost importance. There are two essentials for the effective public-speaker--information and earnestness. He must be thoroughly familiar with his subject and must believe firmly in what he says. Important aids to essentials are clearness of expression and brevity of statement, the one because...
...action opens with a prologue, but the speaker is interrupted by a citizen, one of the spectators, who leaps on the stage and demands that the actors introduce a citizen like himself into the cast. To this the speaker demurs saying there is no one left to take the part. The citizen's wife, who has joined him by this time, suggests that Ralph, their apprentice, act it, and to this the players agree. While he is dressing, the first scene of the regular play is acted...
Ralph appears in the next scene as a grocer, Don Quixote, the Knight of the Burning Pestle. His master, the citizen, who directs his performance, furnishes him with various wonderful adventures, in all of which he comes to grief. He attempts to assist Humphrey in his love affairs, but is also unsuccessful in that respect, as Jasper wins Luce by having himself carried as dead to Venturewell, by whom he is immediately sent to his daughter's apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When...
...cast: Speaker of the Prologue, B. D. Hall '09 A Citizen, G. W. Bricka '07 His Wife, C. B. Wetherall '08 Ralph, his apprentice, O. Lyding '09 Boy, P. N. Garland '08 Venturewell, a merchant, R. L. Niles '09 Humphrey, A. M. Hurlin 1G. Merrythought, W. J. McCormick '07 Jasper, his son, R. M. Middlemass '09 Michael, his son, E. Garnsey '09 Tim, apprentice, R. G. Partridge '08 George, apprentice, C. W. Burton '08 Luce, T. W. Knauth '07 Mistress Merrythought, D. H. Howie '07 Pompiona, B. D. Hall...