Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given last night in Brattle Hall. Considerable credit is due H. B. Stanton '00 and his assistants who have taken a crude, old fashioned play, cut it down, and remodelled it into something fit for the modern stage. But more remodelling and curtailing might have further improved the performance. Throughout the first and second acts there was a tedious succession of long monologues and one-sided conversations in which the speakers, as a rule, overacted their parts. Meanwhile the rest of the cast stood inactive and apparently inattentive...
...time that the play has been put on the stage, although large parts have been taken bodily from it by more popular authors, especially Moliere. The original play contained five acts, but in order to bring it into suitable compass for amateur theatricals it has been found necessary to cut it down to three acts. This work was done by M. C. H. Bernard and H. B. Stanton...
...meet them hand to hand in the line-up. Of course no insult to the visitors was intended; but to make their customs an object of ridicule in so public a way, and in their very faces, was a piece of arrogance which, though not purposely offensive, must have cut deep into Indian sensibilities. Very truly yours, EDWIN H. HALL...
...afternoon Pyne had cut down Averill's lead to two up and then won the twenty-eighth, 4-5. Pyne was now one down. On the twenty-ninth, Averill had a good four and won the hole, 4-6. Then followed five halved holes and Averill was dormie two. On the thirty-fifth, Pyne won, 5-6, and Averill was still dormie. Pyne scored an excellent three on the last while Averill took four because of a short drive. The match was now a tie. On the extra hole both were on the green in two, but Pyne scored...
...Monday. During the earlier part of last week their work consisted only of practice in tackling and breaking through, but lately they have lined-up against one another in elevens. In addition, the men have received individual coaching from Shaw and J. L. Knox 2L. The squad was cut down to seventy men on Monday, fifteen of whom will be taken to training-tale in about ten days...