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...first scene was very realistic. The howling mob carried the spectator back to the days when the first Caesar ruled in Rome. But the tribunes who dispersed the mob seemed to feel the oppressive circumstances of their first appearance, and did their appointed task in a highly "stagey" manner. In the scene which brought the entire company before the audience. the action was fairly effective, although some crudeness was visible. Mr. Cummings, as Caesar, while fairly preserying the austere dignity of the Roman failed somewhat in the very difficult work required of him by appearing too unrelaxed and imperial...
Several years ago the stage of Sanders Theatre was utilized to represent the stage of a Greek theatre in the time of Sophocles. Next Monday evening the Shakspere Club will upon it undertake a task which is second in its difficulty only to the representation of Oedipus Tyrannus. Great labor has been expended upon the stage fittings of the play, and if success is deserved by hard and conscientious work the Shakspere Club need not fear for the success of their great venture. The peculiar formation of the stage in Sanders was found to be a great drawback...
...freshmen is not among the improbabilities, we wish gently to hint that the celebration ensuing would be more satisfactory for all concerned if it were to be kept within the bounds prescribed by the circular issued by the faculty. We all know that it is no easy task to restrain the enthusiasm consequent upon a hard earned victory, but when a request is made by the faculty which contains so little that is objectionable to the undergraduate mind as the rules laid down in the recent circular contain, we think that the students are in duty bound to conform...
...Glee Club and the Pierian gave their second concert of the year in Sanders last evening, and it is the CRIMSON'S pleasant task to congratulate them on their very distinct success in a financial as well as an artistic direction. The theatre was crowded, and the enthusiasm of the audience would be satisfied in more than one case only by a double encore. We commented last fall on the decided advance showed by the Pierian in the work over that of previous years. We have only now to say that, under Mr. Forcheimer's training the past season...
...communication in this morning's issue, the editors of the Advocate give reasons why, in their opinion, the task of publishing the literary work of the college should devolve upon them, rather than upon the proposed Literary Monthly. Until the evidence is all in, and the matter has been fully discussed, we must reserve our judgment on the relative merits of the two schemes...