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This year's Pi Eta show is to be a mystery play. At present, the chief mystery seems to be,--what is its plot? For although the play committee of the Pi Eta Society has two perfectly splendid plots in mind, they can't decide which one they really want...
First they decide to use one plot, then the other. Then it seemed a good idea to combine the two into one hybrid performance. Now they think they will fool every body and use neither of them. It is all very mysterious...
...Italian plot, the hero is an ancient and defunct Roman who has fallen out of the basket which was hoisting him to Heaven after his so-jurn in Purgatory; in the other he is a Russian from Revere,--Dimitri Trestara Gudgodka...
...often thought," said Professor Spalding, "that to listen to opera with its instantaneous appeal to the music lover needs no preparation. Such is not the fact. To know the plot, the libretto, the national school by which the opera is produced, whether it be Italian, French, German, or Russian--these things make all the difference between passive enjoyment or keen active cooperation. So much emphasis is laid nowadays on intelligent appreciation. Mr. Isaacson's talk will offer a wonderful opportunity for all lovers of opera to get much more out of hearing it than would be the case without...
Many and many a year ago was this plot skeleton first set up for celluloid decoration. Despite its age, Barthelmess makes it dance with more than its share of youthful agility. His own part is set squarely in a favorite groove. His supporters (particularly Dorothy Mackaill) know well and perform capably their various businesses...