Word: cast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cast of the opera employs for the first time the united strength of the entire company. The two prima donnas, Miss Lane and Miss Mason alternate in the role of Marguerite-Gounod's music being too great a tax on any one voice for eight performances. Mr. Wm. Wolff has the part of Mephistopheles, which is entirely suited to his magnificent voice. Mephisto is a new role for Mr. Wolff. The public has seen him in roles of almost every description since the opening of the opera season...
Faust, the title role, is cast with Mr. Persse. Mr. Murray as Valentine is extremely happy. The part is that of a dashing soldier, calling for characteristics possessed by Mr. Murray to a marked degree...
...safe to say that none of the Castle Square productions have displayed the wealth of detail, the magnificent costuming and the striking pietures that are to be seen in Rip Van Winkle. The company is most happily cast. Mr. Wolff surprised the vast audience by giving a wonderfully fife-like performance of Rip, the Village Vagabond,- all the nice tone gradations of the sympathetic scenes were most artistically made, and one cannot soon forget the finale of Act 2, where Rip falls asleep surrounded by Hendrick Hudson and his ghostly crew. Miss Lane was charming-she can do nothing badly...
...play Professor de Sumichrast and several of the cast were called before the curtain. This is the only dramatic presentation that the Cercle Francais will give this college year...
...acting throughout the play was of a high order and far above the standard usually set by an amateur cast. In particular the way in which Schurz played the role of Argan was noteworthy. In many places his acting was worthy of a high place upon the professional stage, and his reading of the French lines was almost perfect in accent...