Word: actor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...July number of the Harvard Monthly is devoted to dramatics, and contains a leader "Miss Adams and Joan of Arc" explaining her views on the character; the prologue to Schiller's "Maid of Orleans" translated by Professor W. G. Howard; "Impressions of an Actor" by Tyrone Power; and "Death and the Dicers," by F. Schenck '09, K. R. Macgowan writes of "Honor versus Proctors," and N. Foerster of Lafcadio Hearn...
...look into the future we can hope to see a large spacious theatre owned by the city, which has become the centre of the people's life. The theatre will have become a true delight. The actor freed from the hard work and the notoriety of today will devote himself to his art and fulfill the real duties of a citizen. We are beginning to realize that the theatre is not merely a place "for the wise to seek foolish gratification and the foolish to remain so." Let everybody help free the theatre from this commercial bondage. The opposition will...
...story, which deals with the love affairs of the Princess. Many episodes in the play hardly noticed by the average spectator, have historical bearing; for instance, the part of Eckhoff, which Hanfstaengl played splendidly. The play does not say what every German knows, that this soldier who joins the actors, was to become the greatest actor of his time...
...parts H. L. Murphy '08 and R. D. Murphy '08, the two tenors of the University quartet, repeated the success which they scored last year in "The Financier." Their duet "Springtime" was charmingly rendered as was "The Elfins," a solo by the former. L. M. Potter '08, the star actor of the evening, was irresistibly droll in his rendering of Maria Grumble, a ubiquitous spinster, and his burlesque, "I Just Can't Make my Face Behave," is the song hit of the show. The pony ballet always a feature of these plays, included many graceful and difficult dances...
...Bartholomew Fair" was first produced at the Hope Theatre, London, in 1614, and quickly became one of the most popular pieces of the time. After the Restoration it was revived, and the part of Cokes was played by Nokes, the most celebrated comic actor...