Word: staging
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Dramatic Club announces its first competition for one-act plays to close Monday, January 10. The club intends giving each month during the winter a short one-act play to be acted and staged entirely by students of the University who are not already members of the club. Its purpose is to give men an opportunity for practice in acting and stage-managing in preparation for the spring production. All manuscripts should be sent to G. S. Deming '10, Holworthy...
...contrast, how small seems the world of the teacher! Instead of dealing with men, instead of coming into close connection with busy affairs, the teacher seems to be spending his time with books, or with men who have not yet arrived at the stage of doing things. But now gentlemen, that contrast is by no means all true. Nor is it essentially true. It is true in its outward aspect, but so far as the true view of success in life is concerned, so far as your service to the world is concerned, in teaching and educating young minds...
...altogether appropriate that the announcement of the completion of this building, which you have so admirably conceived, should be made in the presence of the whole University, for it symbolizes a stage in the development of the dental profession which has existed for some time and has now reached a point where it is worthy of commemoration...
When readers who were familiar with Mr. Percy MacKaye's "tragedy of the ludicrous" heard that the Harvard Dramatic Club had undertaken to present it, they may have doubted the club's discretion but were in no uncertainty as to its valor. The elaborateness of the stage devices necessary for the performance, the peculiarly subtle nature of the transition from the broad comedy of the opening to the idealistic tragedy of the close, the very beauty of the lines in the long speeches of the last act, all made the undertaking a hazardous one for both company and playwright...
...hardly to be expected that the first performance of a piece so difficult should decide the question of its adaptability to the stage. Of the remarkable literary interest of the piece, and its high poetic value there is no question; and last night' performance left the impression that with completely adequate setting and management, and a better sustained quality of acting, Mr. MacKaye's tragedy may yet achieve a striking success...