Word: modern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second of Mr. John Blair's course of modern dramas, "Ties" (Les Teuailles), by Paul Hervieu, was given at the Tremont Theatre, yesterday afternoon. The play itself is representative of the tendencies of the modern French drama, and, as in many of its class, the author has been led by the purely psychological interest of his plot to overdraw his principal character, Robert Fergan, and to suit the demands of his climax rather than to fit the climax to his character. With this climax still in view, he has brought in a period of ten years between the second...
...John Blair will present the second of his course of Modern Dramas in the Tremont Theatre tomorrow afternoon at 2.15. The play will be the Comedie-Francaise success, "Les Tenailles," by Paul Hervieu, which, as translated, is entitled "Ties." Mr. Blair is ably supported by Miss Florence Kahn, who won such distinguished praise in the first play, "Galeoto," and by four carefully selected associates. Among the patrons of this series of dramas are several Harvard graduates and professors...
...Modern Language Conference. Paper: The Eclogues of Alexander Barclay. Mr. H. A. Eaton. Warren House, 2d floor, 8 p. m. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...Modern Language Conference. Paper: The Eclogues of Alexander Barclay. Mr. H. A. Eaton. Warren House, 2d floor, 8 p. m. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...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...