Word: acted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discuss the qualities of genius and art. It is common for genius to look with contempt upon art. This should not be so. If you discard art you are sure to fail. Many geniuses have been forgotten because they have failed to observe art. Genius produces, art reproduces. In acting reproduction is the most important. Night after night a part must be played and give the same effect every time. If the actor grows weary, he produces a weary audience. Mr. Macready, the famous actor, once said to Mrs. Warner that one of his great speeches, which used to make...
...meeting of the board of editors of the New American Historical Review in New York last week, two matters of importance were decided. As a result, MacMillan & Co., will publish the Review, and Professor Jameson of Brown University, will act as managing editor. There will be another meeting of the board in a few weeks at which arrangements will be perfected and prospectuses prepared. Professors Hart of Harvard, Adams of Yale, Sloane of Princeton, and Stephens of Cornell, were at the meeting...
...play of the two Yale junior societies Psi U. and D. L. E., will be presented at the Hyperion Theatre, in New Haven on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, May 13 and 14. The piece to be produced this year is "Mr. Bonaparte," a musical burlesque in two acts by F. L. Lee '95, and E. G. Taylor '95. Most of the music has been selected from various sources by Allen Wardwell '95, who has also written a waltz which will be sung in the second act. Julian I. Chamberlain '95, has composed a duet and Sherman...
...Act. I. Napoleon is represented as the scapegrace nephew of a French marquis. He is disinherited and goes...
...Act. II finds Napoleon and his troops on retreat from Moscow. He and two of his marshals are discovered in Russia separated from the army, and trying to conceal their identity from the Russians. They are in great straits when the army makes its appearance and rescues them. At the opening of the second act a specialty called "Off to Siberia," written by F. J. Harris '95, J. McC. Longacre '96, and H. W. Sage 2d, '95, will be introduced and performed by the above mentioned with the addition of W. K. Fowler...