Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...latest stage effects and the highest spectacular results of modern scenic art will again be displayed. With true love that runs roughly for its theme, and war, murder, bomb explosion, broadsword combat, fox hunting with English thoroughbreds and fox hounds, and similar realistic features to enliven a sensational plot "Humanity" is unquestionably one of the strongest melodramas on the American stage...
...story is one of Underground Russia, and deals especially with the secret and terrible power of the Nihilists. It has a strong historical background and an absorbing plot. Jokai never forgets that, after all, the story is the thing, and here is one whose moving complications may well stir the feeblest pulse. It is a book to read and to be read again, a story instinct with the pure romance of the Thousand-and-One Nights...
...Society have already begun rehearsals for their annual spring theatricals, which will be given in April. The name of the play is "Fool's Gold." It is a two act comic opera, written on fairly legitimate lines and with considerable plot. The scene is laid in Italy. The music is by John A. Loud '98, and the libretto by Vivian Burnett '98. Mr. Edward E. Rose will, as in former years, have entire charge of the rehearsals and staging of the play...
...building, to be called Hamilton court, in honor of Alexander Hamilton, will stand between 120th and 121st Sts. It will be nine stories high, and will cover a plot of ground 200 feet square. Each floor has been designed to accommodate 100 students. The rooms are either single or divided into suites, and will be furnished by the university...
...York at his own theatre in spectacular style early in 1880. The English version made for this production by Fred Williams is the one used in the Castle Square representation. The scene of the operetta is laid in Lisbon, Spain, two centuries ago, and the plot concerns the adventures of the Parisian actress, Fanchette, who, having once enjoyed the friendship of Don Lamberto, secretly married to the Queen of Spain, comes to Lisbon to renew her acquaintance with him, not knowing of his marriage. She arrives at Don Lamberto's residence just as he is expecting a visit from...