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...public is favored with the performance, of a piece which can rank with the highest of its type. Such is the appearance of David Warfield in "The Return of Peter Grimm" at the Tremont Theatre. It is ten years since Mr. Warfield first took the title role of David Belasco's psychic play in Boston, and its continued appropriateness today shows, perhaps, the small advance which psychic research has made in the last decade. The dialogue at the close of the third act may appear to some persons rather too one-sided and long; to others the bits of ghost...
...Harvard production, the play "George Washington," is opening at the Belasco Theatre, Washington, this week. The play was written by Percy MacKaye '97; the leading part is taken by Walter Hampden '00; and the settings were designed by R. E. Jones '10. It is planned to use the play for propaganda purposes in the Americanization movement...
...Farrar in "Carmen," at the Strand; "Young America," at the Gaiety; "Miss Information," at George M. Cohan's; "Around the Map," at the New Amsterdam; William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes," at the Empire; "Rolling Stones," at the Harris; Lillian Russell at B. F. Keith's; "The Boomerang," at the Belasco; "The Battle Cry of Peace," at the Vitagraph; and "Town Topics," at the Century. Members of the University football and association football teams will attend the latter performance, for which tickets may be had at the H. A. A. Office...
...English stars, Mr. Barker has engaged the prominent American actresses, Miss Chrystal Herne and Miss Gladys Hanson. Miss Herne has just finished a successful season in the leading role in "Polygamy" at the Park Theatre, New York, and Miss Hanson has played in many of David Belasco's productions, including "The Governor's Lady...
...which suits the general public, but it leaves no room for the minority which may desire to see some other kind of play. There are, however, many excellently produced and acted plays. Several men and institutions, have done and are doing splendid work. Mr. Frohman, Mr. Belasco, Mr. Winthrop Ames and his New Theatre, in New York, and the Toy Theatre and Mr. John Craig in Boston are striking examples." Professor Ordynski also highly commends Professor Baker's 47 Workshop and the Dramatic Club as he feels that they are institutions striving seriously to accomplish something higher in dramatic...