Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusual feature of this year's production is the use of modern terms, actions, and dress in the Moliere play, although the author's original lines are but little change. Y. H. Buhier '20, former president of the club, and W. B. Cowen, Jr. '29 are in charge of this year's presentation, assisted by W. F. Pederson '31, F. E. Bissel '31, N. B. Parker '30, W. M. Dunn '30, S. R. Johnson '29 and W. M. Randol...
...sunburned the tonsils of his illustrious father's se'" -: tary with a reading glass while the secretary (George Akerson) slept on deck. First he had to lie in state, lily in hand, while the band played a dirge and newsmen who had boasted about having dress clothes with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper...
Phonographs and taxis instead of the conventional violins and chaises will contribute the modern touch to the Cercle Francais production, on December 13 and 14, of Moliere's comedy of manners; "Les Precieuses Ridicules". "Moliere in modern dress" is an entirely novel experiment in the staging of French drama, by means of which the Cercle, for the first time producing its plays with entirely amateur direction, hopes to start a new trend in the presentation of classic French plays...
...stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...
...first act in vain attempts to make sense out of the doings of those upon the stage and the last two in a program-thumbing defeatism, still the members of the Cercle show a heartening discontent with mere conventional performance. The staging of seventeenth century plays in modern dress is not entirely unprecedented, but hitherto the creations of Moliere have been passed over by the managers who have put Hamlet and Macbeth into sack suits. Modernistic scenery in various phases has appeared rather frequently on American stages, as patrons of the Dramatic Club have discovered, but heretofore the French plays...