Word: caste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...event of unusual interest in theatrical circles, the Greek play with a cast of well-known professional actors, took place for the first time at the Globe Theatre last evening before a small but appreciative and critical audience. Many fears had been expressed previous to its production that the recitation of the leading role in Greek, and the others in English, would be harsh to the auditor, but all who heard the play last night must agree that the combination of Greek and English was much more harmonious to the ear than that of English and Italian, as given...
...following is the only correct cast of characters that has yet been published of the Greek play, to be presented at the Globe Theatre next Monday...
...connection with the essay on Mr. Gladstone, the following from Mr. Emerson's "English Traits" is interesting. He is speaking of English university men: "When born with good constitutions they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box-Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys; and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Wednesday and Saturday at 2. For the rest of the week, Comeley-Barton Company in "Madame Favart." Catherine Lewis, Minnie Walsh, Fred. Leslie, H. A. Cripps, and John Howson in the cast. Chorus of 75 voices, and a Grand Military Procession. As played at the Strand Theatre, London, over nine hundred nights...
...said, "she takes it much to heart. She's really quite enraged at these intruders who so unconsciously disturbed our charming vis-a-vis. I'll have to cheer her." And thereupon I concentrated all the amiability of my naturally lovely disposition into one enchanting, bewitching smile, and cast it full into her face...