Word: duking
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Murdoch is an improvement on Mr. Wheelock, and his efforts were very satisfactory. Mr. Aldrich made a good Jacques, and spoke the lines with appreciation. It is a pity that the gentleman who played the Banished Duke could not have been banished from the stage as well as from his dukedom...
...Aldrich among the gentlemen, and Mrs. Poole as Lady De Winter, deserve praise; Miss Fisk as the Queen, and Miss Noah as Constance, made the best of their small opportunities, as did Mr. Maguinnis, who played Boniface. The remainder of the cast was wretched indeed. Mr. Murdoch's Duke of Buckingham was not only pointless and insipid, but aggressively bad. Porthos, the elegant, the accomplished, was made up after the manner of a Neapolitan brigand, and Mr. Norton's acting was, if anything, worse than his dressing. Mr. Clarke's impersonation of the jovial tar Seadrift was unique; being somewhat...