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Identifier: littlecountrythe00arvo (find matches)
Title: The Little country theater
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Arvold, Alfred Gilmeiden, 1882-1957
Subjects: Fargo, N.D. Little Country Theater Little theater movement
Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tory reads like a fairytale. The club decided to give a minstrel show.At the first rehearsal nobody possessed anytalent, except one young man. He could clog.At the second rehearsal, a tenor and a mando-lin player were discovered. At the third, sev-eral other good voices were found, a quartetand a twelve piece band were organized.When the show was presented, twenty-eightdifferent young men furnished a variety of actsequal to a first class professional company.They all did something and entered into theentertainment with a splendid spirit. Leo-narda, a play by Bjornstjerne Bjornson withNorwegian music between acts, made an excel-lent impression. Perhaps the most interesting incident thathas occurred in connection with the work inthis country life laboratory was the staging ofa tableau, A Farm Home Scene in IcelandThirty Years Ago, by twenty young men andwomen of Icelandic descent whose homes arein the country districts of North Dakota. Thetableau was very effective. The scene repre-(70)
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CHARACTERISTIC INCIDENTS sented an interior sitting room of an Icelandichome. The walls were whitewashed. In therear of the room was a fireplace. The oldgrandfather was seated in an armchair near thefireplace reading a story in the Icelandic lan-guage. About the room were several youngladies dressed in Icelandic costumes busily en-gaged in spinning yarn and knitting, a favoritepastime in their home. On a chair at the rightwas a young man with a violin, playing selec-tions by an Icelandic composer. Through thesmall windows rays of light representing themidnight sun and the northern lights werethrown. Every detail of their home life wascarried out, even to the serving of coffee withlumps of sugar. Just before the curtain fell,twenty young people, all of Icelandic descent,joined in singing the national Icelandic song,which has the same tune as America. Theeffect of the tableau was tremendous. Itserved as a force in portraying the life of oneof the many nationalities represented in thesta

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  • booksubject:Little_theater_movement
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