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...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...
Permit me to call attention in your columns to an interesting dramatic performance which is to be given by Mr. Faversham at the Hollis Street Theatre this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Impelled by a desire to help on the good work of the Students' House, a haven for the artistically inclined, Mr. Faversham is going to present, under the title of "All the World and his Wife," an English version of the powerful play, "El Gwan Galeoto," the masterpiece of the Spanish dramatist Jose Echegaray...
...long ago he was awarded the Nobel prize, as a tribute to his artistic powers. It is to the problem play that Echegaray has given his greatest attention, and the fullest measure of his success in this direction may be seen in the piece which Mr. Faversham now offers in a form somewhat different from that in which Mr. Blair presented it in Boston, 1899, but sufficiently faithful to the original. From first to last the interest of the spectator is kept tense; and, whether one agrees or not with the premises and the conclusion of the mathematician-dramatist Echegaray...
...stranger. She leaves home and hides her poverty in obscurity. She is followed by the new owner of her home, who wins her without disclosing his identity. The heroine is enacted by Viola Allen, and the hero by Henry Miller. Other members of the organization are Mr. W. Faversham, Robert Edeson, W. H. Crompton, W. H. Thompson, Miss Isabel Irving and Miss May Robson...