Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plot is built upon a Montana senator's search for a daughter, who was kidnapped by two Italian musicians many years before the time of the action. The scene of the first act is laid in the court-yard of an Italian count's castle. The castle is being cared for by the two Italians, with whom the kidnapped girl is living. The senator and his family visit Italy, where, after various complications, the senator recognizes his daughter by means of a locket which she is wearing...
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...exhilarating (not exhilirating) novelty" of Harvard's winning three great events. In Mr. Edgell's story "Two Operas" I find a pleasing old fashioned note--a story straightforwardly told and getting somewhere without baffling allusiveness or the world-worn ennui of two decades of life on this planet. The plot is a trifle better than the telling, but that fault can be remedied. A slightly cynical ending does not destroy the general simplicity. More ambitious and more difficult is the flight of "Tobias Medetates," the most important effort of this number. It is a venture into negro dialect; the character...
...Tres Ramilletes," a modern Spanish comedy by Breton de lcs Herseros, deals with the amusing complications which follow Don Narciso's Ecast of his popularity with the ladies. He concocts a scheme to prove his popularity, but the plot is discovered by his friends and the joke is turned on him. In "El Cochero y M. Corneta," the author, Ramon de la Cruy, treats the adventures of Nicodemus, a coachman who is discharge by his master for careless driving...
...first public performance of Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" was given last night at Brattle Hall by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. The success of the play does not hang on the plot, which is slender, but on its unusual scenes, its swift action, its stinging satire and the spirited delineation of character. The performance last night was remarkably smooth, the cast of thirty-four persons being of more than average ability. C. B. Wetherell '08 played Overdo, the pompous justice of the peace, with signal success. H. R. Shipherd '08 was successful throughout in his rendering...