Word: alte
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Emil Layman 1G., who played the part of Dr. Juettner in "Alt Heidelberg." will give a recital in German, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. All who are interested are invited...
...final performance of "Alt Heidelberg," the Deutscher Verein play for this year, will be given in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets, at $1.50, $1, 75 cents, and 50 cents, are on sale in Boston, at Herrick's; and in Cambridge, at the Co-operative...
...inner spirit, in both speech and action, it is universally human, comprehensible, and touching, while the exotic setting, as it seems to us in American, of the Karlsberg court and the Heidelberg inn, only adds another tang to the pleasure of the whole. Thus, in a measure, is "Alt Heidelberg" proof against any sort of performance; but it needed relatively few of these defences in the representation that the members of the Deutscher Verein accomplished last night. They had, too, the aid of a part of the Pierian Sodality for a rather overdressed orchestra in the scenes in the tavern...
...little too suggestive of "required reading" in elementary German. "Der Herr Senator" and "Der Raub der Saberinnen" mounted higher in the theatrical scale and were freer from the hint of the class-room. Both, however, in difficulty of performance and in interest to a general audience, fell far below "Alt Heidelberg," the play that the society acted in Jordan Hall in Boston last night and will repeat in Brattle Hall on Thursday...
More nearly than any other German play, unless it is Sudermann's "Heimath," of our immediate time, "Alt Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university...