Word: actors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first appearance in 1874 as Chastelard in "Mary Stuart" at the Princess Theatre. In the same year he made an early start in Shakesperian drama as Fenton in the "Merry Wives of Windsor." Soon came a notable event, the production of "Dan't Druce," in which the young actor made a pronounced success in his love scenes with Miss Marion Terry. He showed an easy grip of character in "Duty," and in 1879 he played Sir Horace Welby in "Forget-Me-Not," with Miss Genevieve Ward, in a trying part acted with great finesse and spirit...
Then came two roles which gave him a definite position in the front rank of English actors. He created the part of Dunstan Renshaw in Piner's "The Profligate," and fairly electrified the audience by the perfection of his acting. At the Garrick in 1890 as Baron Scarpia in "La Tosca," Mr. Robertson's grim, powerful and horribly fascinating performance came as a revelation to play-goers who had identified the actor with the sympathetic young lovers of Shakesperian and modern drama. After creating the part of Dennis Heron in Pinero's "Lady Bountiful," he gave a beautiful and memorable...
...Sachs '04 as Phillip Klapproth made the most of a funny part, entering into the spirit of every situation. G. W. D. H. Gribble '05 played the ranting actor well. The love scene in which C. Ehlermann, Jr., '05, as Alfred Klapproth, reads his proposal to Friederika, was one of the best situations in the play. W. H. Chase '04 as Josephine Kruger, H. Henneberger '05, as Amelie Pfeiffer, and P. G. Henderson '05, as Ulrike Sposser, were distinctly feminine...
...performance last night surpassed anything that has been done previously by the Cercle Francais. Each actor understood that the play was written in a totally different vein from last year's comedy, and in consequence made the gestures and intonations suit the parts. The "finesse" of the comedy was not lost when acted so intelligently...
...Copeland '82, of the English Department, is about to bring out a new book on the life of Edwin Booth. The volume will contain two hitherto unpublished letters written by the actor to T. B. Aldrich...