The Dickinson Players of the Dramatic Club performed As You Like it, a play by William Shakespeare, during the 1919 commencement weekend.
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Fri., Jun. 11, 1920
The commencement concert for the 1919-1920 academic year was held in Bosler Hall at the start of commencement weekend. The program opened with the Choir singing von der Stucken's "Our Glorious Land" and Sullivan's "The Lost Chord". George Vanaman then gave a reading from Ben Hur and...
Sat., Jun. 12, 1920
The Dramatic Club performed Sherwood, a play by Alfred Noyes, at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall.
Mon., Dec. 13, 1920
Clifford Devereux and his theatre company performed five shows over two days in Bosler Hall. The first show, Her Husband's Wife by A. E. Thomas, was on Monday at 8:15pm. On Tuesday afternoon, beginning at 2:30pm, the company performed a scene from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...
Mon., Dec. 20, 1920
The Philomel Club presented their 1920 winter concert in Bosler Hall. They sang Harris' "Venice", Cesek-Roepper's "Slumber Song", von Weber's "Jubilee Overture", Hervey's "Once", de Fontenailles' "Resolve", Rachmaninoff's "The Captive", Stair's "Little Dutch Lullaby", Spross' "Harp of Winds",...
Sat., Apr. 2, 1921
Miss Mary Burttoff of New York City performed a song recital in the chapel that was very well received by the audience. The program was composed of a series of British, Russian, and American songs.
Sat., Jun. 4, 1921
The Dramatic Club performed The Silver Box, a play by John Galsworthy, in Bosler Hall during the 1921 commencement weekend.
Sat., Jun. 4, 1921
The Philomel Club performed An Adamless Eden, a comic opera by H. S. Glard and W. A. Slaughter, at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall.
Tue., Mar. 14, 1922
The Philomel Club presented their spring concert at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall. They began with Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite": "Morning Mood", "Asa's Death", "Anitra's Dance", and "In the Hall of the Mountain King". The program continued with Verdi's "Caro Nome", Barratt's "It was a Lover and His Lass"...
Sat., Jun. 3, 1922
The Philomel Club and Ray Hearn presented The Land of Chance, a comedic operetta by Fay and Alice Monroe Foster, at 8:00pm.
Mon., Jun. 5, 1922
The Dramatic Club performed Sweet Lavender, a play by Arthur W. Pinero, in Bosler Hall.
Tue., May 15, 1923
Frank McEntee and Company from the Shakespeare Playhouse in New York performed As You Like It in Bosler Hall.
Mon., May 21, 1923
The Glee Club performed for their 1923 spring concert at 8:15pm in Bosler Hall. The program included Troters' "Marching", Holden's "When Twilight Dews", Nevin's "The Rosary", Schmann's "The Two Grenadiers", Widener's "Honey Town", Cadman's "At Dawning", Adams' "Far Away in the South", Reichardt'...
Sat., Jun. 2, 1923
The Combined Glee Clubs and Orchestra of Dickinson College performed The Maid and the Middy, a comic operetta by David Stevens and George Lowell Tracy, at 8:15pm.
Mon., Jun. 4, 1923
The Dramatic Club performed The Importance of Being Earnest, play by Oscar Wilde, at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall.
Wed., May 14, 1924
The Greek Club performed The Iphigenia in Tauris, a play by Euripides, at 4:00pm in front of Old West. A part of the 1924 Founder's Day celebration, the production featured a chorus and a ballet.
Sat., May 31, 1924
The Men's and Women's Glee Club, assisted by the "Famous 1914 Glee Club", performed a program of eleven songs for the 1924 Commencement Concert in Bosler Hall. The men sang Massanet's "Elegy", Trinkaus' "Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin'", Nachez's "Dances Iziganes", Edgar's "Salut d'Amom", Kreisler's "...
Mon., Jun. 2, 1924
The Dickinson Players of the Dramatic Club performed The Master Builder, a drama by Henrik Ibsen, in Bosler Hall.
Thu., Mar. 5, 1925
The Dickinson Players of the Dramatic Club performed Peg O' My Heart, a comedy by J. Hartley Manners, in Bosler Hall. Between the first and second acts, Katherine Coulter sang and the College Glee Club Quartet performed between the second and third acts.
Mon., Jun. 8, 1925
The Dickinson Players of the Dramatic Club performed The New Poor, a play by Cosmo Hamilton, at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall. During the intermission between the first and second acts, Helen Miller of Harrisburg and Baltimore sang a group of songs.
Tue., Oct. 27, 1925
The Paul Vernon Quintet performed for students in chapel. Four members of the quintet also played with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.
Tue., Mar. 16, 1926
The Dickinson Players of the Dramatic Club performed The Whole Town's Talking, a play by John Emerson and Anita Loos, at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall.
Tue., Apr. 13, 1926
As part of the faculty entertainment committee's program series, Dr. Frederick D. Losey gave two lectures on the same day about Shakespeare's "King Lear." The first lecture focused on debunking and explaining the incorrect popular beliefs about the play. For the second lecture, Dr. Frederick...
Fri., Jun. 4, 1926
The Dickinson Players of the Dramatic Club performed Kempy, a play by J. C. and Elliot Nugent, at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall. In this show, the title role of Kempy was played by Paul C. BeHanna.
Sat., Nov. 13, 1926
Dorothea Spinney, an interpreter of Greek Drama, presented the Hippolytus of Euripides, an ancient Greek play during chapel on Saturday, November 13, 1926.
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