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...simple, eager nature of a child, always ready to converse with voluble intimacy with any casual acquaintance or to fly up in unaccountable excitement over the most trifling pleasure or displeasure. His fairy stories, written rather for grown-ups than for children, have all the imaginative charm of Grimm or Anderson and in addition show the versatility and richness of a more cultured mind...
...Bases on balls off Nash 1, of Lane 4, Hits off Nash 1 in "S" innings, off Puffer 1 in 1, off Cotter 1 in 1. Losing pitcher, Cotter, Hit by pitched ball, by Lane (Keene). Double play, McGinley to Miller. Passed ball, Miller. Time, 1h, 50m. Umpire Grimm...
Occasionally during the theatrical season, the Boston public is favored with the performance, of a piece which can rank with the highest of its type. Such is the appearance of David Warfield in "The Return of Peter Grimm" at the Tremont Theatre. It is ten years since Mr. Warfield first took the title role of David Belasco's psychic play in Boston, and its continued appropriateness today shows, perhaps, the small advance which psychic research has made in the last decade. The dialogue at the close of the third act may appear to some persons rather too one-sided...
...Warfield gives to Peter Grimm a characterization which is nearly unique among this season's impersonations in its strength and care of detail,--opera glasses can detect no flaws of facial expression. Peter Grimm lives before the audience. Mr. Warfield's supporting cast is a good one, and the problems of lighting and scenery, obviously so vital to the success of a supernatural effect, are adequately solved and well-managed...
...sketch of the plot, a re-reading of the title, "The Return of Peter Grimm" will almost suffice. Peter Grimm is an eccentric, rich flower gardener who boasts of his old Dutch ancestry. In his household are his ward. Catherine, a nephew and a secretary. For the life of each Peter Grimm has a set plan, made without consulting the persons most concerned in its fulfilment. He dies suddenly, returns as a ghost to his house, and sees the ill-conceived plans changed as he himself would have had them, had he been enlightened as to their consequences...