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...drama, as played by Mr. Hampden, is a good old comedy of plot and action, with characterization, minimized. Sir Giles Overreach is a stage villain without redeeming features, while his daughter (strange heredity!) is the sum of all charms. There is the attractive young lover, the afflicted hero, the fawning toad, and a host of stock comic characters brightly differentiated. When--one reads these Elizabethan comedies, one is puzzled sometimes to follow the twisted threads of plot and counterplot; but on the stage it all unfolds compactly and without confusion. The trick of deception, dramatic irony, we call...
...plot deals in a humorous manner with the story of Antony and Cleopatra and follows in a general way the version of Shakespeare's play until the second act in which a football game between Caesar and Antony is introduced. The audience sees a scoreboard in Cleopatra's palace and follows the game along with the crowd...
...plot clearly combines modern football with famous figures of ancient history and there are additional dance and song numbers by members of the society. Tickets for all public performances can now be obtained at the Cooperative Society and Leavitt and Peirce's. All public productions in Cambridge will be given at the Pi Eta theatre...
...plot is straight forward and uninvolved. Robert Levaltier, a young secretary, saves his employer from bankruptcy and thereby wins the hand of his daughter, Helene. This is the foundation of an exceptionally brilliant dialogue to the excellence of which may be attributed the success of the whole play...
This play, written by Wilson Cullison and Avery Hapwood, is successfully acted by the Somerville Players. The plot is a rapid succession of situations, resulting in untold complication. Miss Anne Hamilton in the role of Gertie, the heroine, is most attractive; and Mr. Harry Bond as Gertie's husband, and Mr. Halbert Brown as the clownish butler, do justice to difficult roles...