Word: detail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wines delivered last evening , in Sever 11, a lecture which for its happy combination of valuable statistics with interesting detail and anecdote, deserved a much larger audience than was present...
...safe to say that none of the Castle Square productions have displayed the wealth of detail, the magnificent costuming and the striking pietures that are to be seen in Rip Van Winkle. The company is most happily cast. Mr. Wolff surprised the vast audience by giving a wonderfully fife-like performance of Rip, the Village Vagabond,- all the nice tone gradations of the sympathetic scenes were most artistically made, and one cannot soon forget the finale of Act 2, where Rip falls asleep surrounded by Hendrick Hudson and his ghostly crew. Miss Lane was charming-she can do nothing badly...
...whole matter of the sources from which are derived La Fontaine's fables is very prolix and full of detail. One of the greatest collections of such fables is Aesop's, which is intimately connected with the tales of the East. Another great collection is that in the "Jataka," which contains 550 stories of the Buddha's former births. The sources of the first six books of La Fontaine may be traced to Aesop and to Pheidros; from seven to eleven the books were derived in their sources from the oriental, that is, the Jataka and Bidpai literature...
There are, altogether, 65 men, including those who are retained for further trial. The strings and the wind have each a separate rehearsal once a week, (except when an occasional full rehearsal is held in order to obtain careful drill in detail...
...arrangements for the play were also discussed in detail. It was voted to give one performance in Copley Hall, Boston, and two in Brattle Hall, Cambridge. The former will seat 700 persons and has a very large and well equipped stage. Members were requested to hand in their name for places in the cast of the play or ballet. There are twelve acting parts in "Le Malade Imaginaire," as follows...