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...when brought to this country and tried out on the American public it failed. It was then suggested that Mr. MacKaye was the right person to re-write the play. He refused to revise the old version but set to work to supplement the legend with a romantic plot of his own. This is the version now being presented under the title of "A Thousand Years Ago," which name was adopted after "Turandot" and "The Princess of Pekin" were considered and discarded. The scenery is of the original Reinhardt type...
...lectures on Sunday will concern the structure of plays, and will touch the nature of drama, form, with examples of structure from Shakespeare and modern plays the relation of characters and plot, and motivation...
...plot of "We, the People" is based on an actual episode in the real life of a convict. Every effort has been expended to secure realism, both in action and scenery, one of the settings being a replica of the rotunda in the Charlestown Prison...
...life in the Middle West. The story is about a baby adopted by a childless couple who come upon it during a flood. The two have sunk low in degeneracy and hope to obtain an inheritance by pretending the child to be their own. Through the rest of the plot, the influence of the child causes a gradual regeneration. The scenes are laid in Cincinnati during a time of flood, and in an Ohio farmhouse...
...starts in a theatrical office properly stocked with fascinating stenographer-chorus-girls. Here we meet the personages in a plot that remains traceable throughout the play--a beautiful society maiden (she actually is beautiful) who wants to be a star; her sus- ceptible and perfectly-dressed papa; her amiably aimless admirer; a furtive and ominous villian; a mercenary manager; a dejected dinge; and various actors and would-be actors. The broken-down tragedian supplies an element unexpected in musical comedy, for Mr. Hodges succeeds in bringing out the full farcical effect and at the same time a suggestion...