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Professor Albert Feuillerat will give the sixth lecture of his series of lectures on "Shakespere: His Time and His Work" tomorrow at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. He will speak upon "Shakspere's Youth", tracing the effect of the adventures and episodes that occurred during the great dramatist's youth in the plays that he wrote years later...
Tarnish. The advent of a new dramatist and of a new star made the production, of this play particularly significant. Gilbert Emery, soldier of fortune, writer, actor, is the author. Ann Harding, an able but previously undistinguished player, is the actress to whom the wise men carried their literary frankincense and myrrh...
With comedy it's only something less so. Where the dramatist falls ; down the dressmaker rises up. Costumes can make a good play better, or they can make a bad play ; pass for good. Sweet Nell takes gate receipts in good part on its costume. The last act of H. B. Warner's You and I is bolstered with gratuitous ; masquerade. Polly Preferred owes greatly to its costumes. And who can say how much has 18th century satin won of The Rivals and The School for Scandal...
...Author. Hermann Sudermann shares with Gerhart Hauptmann the perhaps dubious honor of being considered a contemporary classic by his own nation in his own time. He is chiefly famous as a novelist and dramatist and his reputation in both fields is international...
...icumen in and the cut-rate ticket agencies are ready to cry " Cuckoo! " at their more expensive brethren-it is not out of order to consider some aspects of the season now moribund. The outstanding fact would seem to be, at first sight, the unquestionable success of an English dramatist, William Shakespeare, upon the American stage. New York has seen Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet break all their previous long-run records for America-besides a good production of The Merchant of Venice, an expensive, if unsuccessful, one of At, You Like It, and productions of The Comedy of Errors...