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This dramatic library consists for the most part of biographies of stage celebrities, narratives of Green Room gossip which were privately printed or issued from provincial presses, and local theatrical playbills. The biographies are those of Cooke, Garrick, Jordon, Kemble, Macready, and Siddons; that of Garrick is illustrated with playbills of Covent Garden. There is also a representative group of the collected writings of the nineteenth century. The steadily increasing demand for these editions by libraries and the almost continuous use of them by students of literature makes it particularly desirable for the Library to have a second...
...there is no century-coupling antiquarian who has seen all the great Hamlets from Garrick down and could give a real standard for comparison. Even at that such a man would probably exasperate everyone by doting upon some obscure Hamlet of two hundred years ago whom he saw just after falling in love for the first time...
...forced to go to the encyclopedia or its equivalent for our facts, as Shakespeare did. Nothing need be said about that long line of Hamlets of the century after Garrick. People went to the theatre for the joy of it. No clever criticism wrinkled the brow, and no tongue was stuck in the cheek over any performance. A jovial mob lounged in the theatre and awaited the actors. If they liked the play they broke out a clapping and a-yelling; if they did not like it they let fly any bric-a-brac that came to hand...
...Yard Dash.--R. G. Croft, W. C. Ferguson, H. R. Ford, A. W. Garrick, L. H. Gordon, H. K. Gray, H. Hungerford, G. B. Kaign, D. B. Lourie, J. A. Ross, R. G. Scarlett, F. H. Speer, W. E. Stevenson, J. C. Taylor, G. F. Tinker...
...playwrights and producers, Lee Simonson has staged numerous shows of types not usually hazarded by the large theatres, and is known as one of the most progressive and artistic producers in the smaller experimental theatres in the country. In this line he has achieved a marked success at the Garrick Theatre in New York, with which he is connected. Among his best-known recent productions have been "John Ferguson" and "Jane Clegg," which is now running there. Mr. Simonson has been connected in his work with S. J. Hume '13, Irving Pichel '14, R. E. Jones '10 and others well...