Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...fifth production by the Dramatic Club will be presented in Brattle Hall on December 12 and 13, and in Jordan Hall, Boston, on December 16. The play, a farce-comedy in three acts called "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander," was written by Miss L. R. Standwood, a Radcliffe student. Mr. Francis Powell, who was eight years stage director with Sothern and with Sothern and Marlowe, and who was with Madame Nazimova last year, has consented to act as coach. Tickets at $1.50 and $1 can be purchased from H. R. Bowser '12, Randolph 55. On and after next Monday they...
...Parker '90, dramatic critic of the Transcript, has written for the CRIMSON the following criticism of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander...
...Progress of Mrs. Alexander" differs in three particulars from the plays that the Dramatic Club has acted hitherto. It is a light and satirical comedy of the present hour; it has its local interest and entertainment, since the longest and the most amusing of the three acts passes in a Boston drawing room at the meeting of a Boston club; and it has been written by a student of Radcliffe. It will be the first long comedy and the first play by a woman that the club has acted. It is, besides, a piece actually written by a student...
...Newport at midsummer among the socially ascending and ascended; and one in Boston among those who already dwell in a higher social aether. In all three scenes the central figure is Mrs. Alexander Smith--hyphenated after the first act--who wishes to mount socially and who deserves her progress. At Breezeboro, where the action begins, she is capable of handling simultaneously a perturbed party of women at bridge and a high-placed matron of New York who has dropped down upon her. At Newport she has climbed to those higher social plateaus where dwell susceptible Russian princes, envious rivals...
...Cambridge. The comedy is brightest, most observant, and most entertaining in the act that assembles playfully and good-naturedly what may be called its Boston collection. A thread or two of intrigue and deceit holds together its picturing of character and manners; the stages of Mrs. Smith's progress give it its movement; and seldom does Miss Stanwood lose her light hand. Such a satirical comedy of social "actualities," it is safe to say, no dramatic club in an American college has dared to attempt...