Word: faversham
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sure of finding four members of the aristocracy, full of good breeding and bon mots, a sleepy butler, a silver cigarette box, a whiskey and potass, and a beautiful woman hidden in the next room! If any cast could really take us back to those days, Mr. Faversham has chosen it. Miss Elliot is stupendously stunning, and almost convincing as Lady Algy. We suspect that, being a sport herself, she left Lord A. mainly because he was so refined when drunk, but during his sober moments he was, as played by Mr. Faversham, decidedly a charming and appealing person. These...
...Shaw's latest and wittiest play to see our stage was presented Monday for the first time in Boston, by Mr. Faversham and his wonderful company. Mr. Faversham, having essayed, in the immediate past, the roles of a faun, a gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world...
...play is unusually well mounted--the thunderstorm and the sunrise deserve much credit. Mr. Faversham makes the Faun singularly attractive and entertaining and at the same time sensible and convincing. A less capable actor would make his speeches on free self-expression and unsatisfied affection seem anarchistic or worse. But Mr. Faversham's Faun is sane even while he is radical. Altogether the play is a delight to those who have a thinking interest in the theatre, and a credit to Mr. Faversham, Mr. Knoblauch and what has been called the "school of Harvard dramatists...
...Faun" is a fantastic comedy in three acts and was first produced at Daly's Theatre, New York, last January. William Faversham will play the "Faun" and Julie Opp the part of "Lady Alexandra Vancy." The play relates the experiences of a Faun mingling with modern society. The irrepressible spirit of this simple-hearted creature of nature puts to confusion the false logic of artificial society in a series of startlingly novel and highly entertaining situations, worked out with brilliant dialogue through three acts of continuously sustained interest. Mr. Faversham is singularly successful in sustaining the sense of the unhuman...