Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Take Your Medicine," now running at the Hollis, offers Alexandra Carlisle and Einar Linden an excellent opportunity to display a great deal of spontaneous art. Miss Carlisle is worth going to, merely to hear her voice, which is a great relief from the variety of speaking that greets the "tired student" from the runway. Mr. Linden has a difficult part, and makes the fullest possible use of his opportunities. From the very start he captures the sympathy of the audience by his skillful representation of temperament. To do this, he exhibits a remarkable variety of truly cultivated parlor tricks. Even...
...Faun" is a fantastic comedy in three acts and was first produced at Daly's Theatre, New York, last January. William Faversham will play the "Faun" and Julie Opp the part of "Lady Alexandra Vancy." The play relates the experiences of a Faun mingling with modern society. The irrepressible spirit of this simple-hearted creature of nature puts to confusion the false logic of artificial society in a series of startlingly novel and highly entertaining situations, worked out with brilliant dialogue through three acts of continuously sustained interest. Mr. Faversham is singularly successful in sustaining the sense of the unhuman...