Performances, Films, and Exhibits

    Entries drawn from the college history timeline

Fri., Jun. 6, 1930

The Dickinson Players of the Dramatic Club performed Arms and the Man, a play by George Bernard Shaw, at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Wed., Oct. 22, 1930

Dickinson joined the world celebration of the two-thousandth anniversary of the birth of the Roman poet Publius Virgilius Maro with a two-day program of lectures and exhibits. 

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Wed., Oct. 29, 1930

Who Killed Earl Wright?, a dramatization of a murder trial, was performed at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall by Dickinson students and members of the faculty.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Mon., Nov. 3, 1930

The Shakespeare Players performed Macbeth in a packed-to-capacity Bosler Hall as part of their tour of colleges.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., Feb. 6, 1931

The Mohler Scientific Club, under the guidance of Howard Blair, '31, sponsored a demonstration of a television and a lecture about "this coming development of science" in the Tome Scientific Building.

Event Type: Lectures and Symposia, Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Tue., Mar. 3, 1931

The Carlisle Civic Club held its 6th annual show of art by modern painters in the YMCA room of Old West.  The paintings were loaned by citizens of Carlisle.  Painters featured in the show included Carl Lawless, Gertrude Masters, Ross Braught, and Elizabeth Washington.

Event Type: Community Events, Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., Mar. 13, 1931

The Greek Club produced a pageant of a traditional Greek wedding ceremony in the Union Philosophical Hall.  Christina Meredith and DeHaven Woodcock directed and narrated the performance.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Tue., Mar. 24, 1931

The Dickinson debate team lost to Westminster College after arguing the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, that the Several States Should Adopt Unemployment Insurance".

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Thu., May 14, 1931

The Dickinson Players of the Dramatic Club presented Tommy, a comedic play by Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson, at 8:15pm in Bosler Hall. In this show, the title role of Tommy was played by Robert Porteus.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sat., Jun. 6, 1931

The Combined Glee Clubs performed Oh Doctor, an operetta by Estelle Merryman Clark and Palmer John Clark, at 8:30pm in Bosler Hall.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Thu., Sep. 24, 1931

Professor C. R. W. Thomas, David Myers '32, Milton Flower '31, and Dorothy Myran '31 were in the cast of a play presented on Thursday and Friday at Carlisle high school by the Carlisle Women's Civic Club.  The Dickinson Men's Glee Club also participated in the production.

Event Type: Community Events, Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Wed., Dec. 2, 1931

The German Club presented the film, "Zwei Herzen in 3/4 Takt" in the Strand Theater as a fundraiser for their German scholarship fund.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Tue., Dec. 15, 1931

The Dramatic Club performed The Millionaire, a three-act comedy by Juliet Wilbur Tomkins and Nathaniel Edward Reeid, in Bosler Hall.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Mon., Feb. 22, 1932

The Dickinson players performed the play "The Letter of Introduction" and the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs performed patriotic songs in a show for the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Lemoyne High School.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Tue., Feb. 23, 1932

The Greek Club performed scences from the life of Heracles in a Festival of Heracles held in Union Philosophical hall on February 23, 1932.  The students wrote, directed, and acted in the show.  A Greek picnic followed the performance.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., Mar. 11, 1932

A Swedish group called the Scandinavian Bell Ringers gave a concert in a special chapel service on March 11, 1932.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Wed., Mar. 16, 1932

The German Club sponsored a visit to campus by Herr Max Montor, a famous actor and impersonator.  Herr Montor performed selections from Faust and other works by Goethe in the March 16 chapel service in honor of the centennial of Goethe's death.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Thu., Mar. 31, 1932

The German Club presented a concert of German music performed by Hans Von Wasielewski on cello and Clarence E. Heckler on the organ. The recital was held at the Grace Church at 8:00pm.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Tue., Apr. 26, 1932

The Dramatic Club presented The Importance of Being Earnest on April 26, 1932, in Bosler Hall.  Jack Snyder, Bruce Wagner, Jane Hoffman, and Gwendolyn Fairfar starred.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., May 6, 1932

The College Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Ralph Schecter, performed a concert of classical music in Bosler Hall on May 6, 1932.  They performed Beethoven's "Symphony in C Major", Mendelssohn's "Capriccio Brilliante", Greig's "The Last Spring", Schubert's "Minuet in B Minor" and "Moment...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., May 6, 1932

The College Orchestra performed in their annual spring concert at 8:00pm in Bosler Memorial Hall. Their program included Ludwig von Beethoven's "Symphony in C Major (No. 1)", Mendelssohn's "Capriccio Brillante", Edward Grieg's "The Last Spring", Franz Schubert's "Minuet in B Minor" and "Moment...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Tue., May 10, 1932

Under the auspices of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, an exhibit of modern German art was on display in the YMCA room of Old West from Tuesday, May 10 to Tuesday, May 17, 1932.  The exhibit, intended to acquaint American youth with contemporary German art, featured such artists as Max...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sat., Jun. 4, 1932

Candida, a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, was performed during the 1932 Commencement Weekend by the Dramatic Club. The performance was at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Mon., Oct. 17, 1932

A Shakespearean company headed by James Hendrickson and Claire Bruce presented The Merchant of Venice in Bosler Hall on October 17, 1932.  The audience consisted mostly of townspeople and high school students.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Tue., Oct. 18, 1932

A Shakespearean company headed by James Hendrickson and Claire Bruce presented Hamlet in Bosler Hall on October 18, 1932.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits

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