Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Greet's company of Woodland Players left behind them yesterday an impression that no other presentation of "As You Like It" and the "Comedy of Errors" can efface. If possible, the second performances were more charming than the first:--they certainly lost none of their beauty for those who saw them twice; and for those who were so fortunate as to be in the audience last night, Miss Matthison's "Rosalind" will serve as a standard by which to appreciate other interpretations of the part. Indeed the last audience seemed the most sympathetic of the four, and plainly showed...
...acting, scarcely too much can be said. Graceful, and charming, appealing alike in moments of seriousness and gaiety. Miss Matthison gave a portrayal of Rosalind that satisfied one's desires and ideas for the character, even while it enlarged the consciousness of what these ideals might be. Mr. Greet, as Jaques, though somewhat more meditatively good-humored than suits the customary idea of the "melancholy" Jaques, was consistently excellent in his acting of the part as he interpreted it. Mr. Henry Hadfield played the part of the banished Duke with dignity and effectiveness: Mr. Stanley Drewitt, as Orlando, though inclined...
...Like It" and the "Comedy of Errors," were events to be remembered long. Not before in Cambridge, and perhaps but seldom anywhere, have such plays as these been presented in such fitting surroundings as those of yesterday, and with such excellent acting as that of Mr. Greet's Woodland Players...
...play, offering less prominence to individual excellence than "As You Like It," showed the uniform strength of the company. Mr. Ben Greet and Mr. C. Rann Kennedy the two Dromios, showed unusual appreciation and restraint, avoiding the buffoonery so often substituted for the humor of their lines. A nice discrimination was noticeable between the impersonation of Antipholus the Ephesian and Antipholus of Syracuse. A real difference in attitude, the difference between native citizen and stranger, stood out clearly in both characters throughout the tangles of mistaken identity...
...little doubt; yet the courage and naturalness with which she carried through the stormy scene with her supposed husband has seldom been equalled. Even more striking was the depth and purity of her voice, which, without apparent effort, easily reached the entire audience. In her lines, as in Mr. Greet's, the rhythm of the words was retained without undue prominence of metre,--a rare and delightful medium. Specially good during the entire play was the interpretation of meaning by accent and gesture. Several lines, ordinarily rather vague, were given life and significance by the thoughtful attention to detail which...