Word: playlet
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Right Honorable Members of the House of Commons listened last week like eager theatregoers to a sharp exchange of statements concerning the international debt situation, which might easily be reproduced as a three-speech playlet...
...kindly, never-get-rich old fellow who had the honor to be Ellie's father, was admirably filled by Horace Pollock. And Ralph Roberts stole a large slice of the second act from under the noses of the rest of the cast with his Cockney dialect and the little playlet all his own, a gift from Shaw to the confusion of the British people
...Edmund Tilney. Good Sir Edmund--whether from sheer spite or momentary indisposition, reporters were unable to ascertain--grasped his blue pencil with a shriek of rage, and by means of sparkling marginal notes commanded drastic revision. Four accomplished dramatists hurried to his assistance, bore away the torn and bleeding playlet and revamped it to a more conventional pattern. Fortunately for modern scholars, one of the attending surgeons left the results of his efforts in his own hand. Careful examination shows that the writing corresponds almost exactly to the signature at the end of the last will and testament of William...
...programs was intense last night as each head proctor strove to outdo the other. Songs by Coach Bill Haines will be the feature in Smith Halls; R. H. Hopkins 2L, head proctor at Standish has engaged a troupe of last year's Pi Eta minstrels to produce a little playlet called. "When Nero Played His Fiddle"; while B. S. Cogan '23, head proctor of Gore, present the Moynahan Brothers as his attraction...
...first two of these plays, "The Farewell Curse" and "The Maharani of Arakan", were written by Rabindranath Tagore, while "Savitri" or "Love Conquers Death", the third playlet, is a lyrical drama by K. N. Das Gupta and adapted from the Hindu epic "The Mahabharata". These three plays combine into one program, the tragedy, comedy, epic, and idealism...