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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Globe, the "Pirates of Penzance" will be sung by an especially selected company, and the opera will be given with special attention to details. Miss Gertrude Franklin appears as Mabel, for the first time in Boston. The cast includes such excellent artists as Signor Brocolini, the original Pirate King; and Miss Laura Joyce, the original Ruth...
...McCosh said of the recent Princeton troubles: "We did not proceed at once to discipline our young gentlemen, believing that they had been very properly arrested by the town authorities and punished according to law. Since their action we have suspended those found guilty. Stung by the odium cast on the college by the late riotous proceedings, all of the students, save three or four who were absent at the time, have signed a pledge not to indulge in it during their college course. During my presidency of about ten years I have always demanded pledges from those who transgressed...
Foiled in this, as he had been in an attempt to have the editors expelled, he seems to have cast about for some other means of upholding his course, for the best of the students in whom his actions have stirred hostility were the ones he would crush by expelling them from the university...
...piece is mounted better or presented with more regard to the accessories of a piece. We advise our readers to see this play, for it marks an important era in the local history of the drama. The acting of Mr. Riddle, Miss Cayvan, and indeed of the whole cast, is excellent." The general opinion of the press throughout the country seems to be that the Greek play at the Globe is a success. It is worthy of a good support from Harvard...
...nineteen persons employed in the production of the "OEdipus" last evening, especial interest, of course, was centered upon Mr. George Riddle as OEdipus, and Miss Georgia Cayvan as Jocasta. Of Mr. Riddle's acting we may say that, though he appeared in the leading role supported by a cast of characters well known in theatrical circles, he stood forth among them all as a star of rare talent. The chief criticism that has heretofore been urged against Mr. Riddle's acting was that his voice was not sufficiently strong to play so heavy a part as that of the leading...